Detection of herpesviruses by polymerase chain reaction in lymphocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis
✍ Scribed by Lijuan Zhang; Simo Nikkari; Mikael Skurnik; Thedi Ziegler; Reijo Luukkainen; Timo Möttönen; Paavo Toivanen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 713 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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## Abstract ## Objective To determine whether arterial wall thickening is advanced in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients compared with healthy controls by measuring the intima‐media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid and femoral arteries, and to evaluate the factors associated with arterial IMT