Vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for new fractures in Japanese postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the IORRA cohort study.

Masanori Nakayama Takefumi Furuya Eisuke Inoue Eiichi Tanaka Katsunori Ikari Hisashi Yamanaka Masayoshi Harigai

Published in: Archives of osteoporosis (2021)

Vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for new fractures in Japanese female patients over the age of 50 years with RA. Screening these patients for serum 25(OH)D could potentially be seminal to reducing their risk of fractures.

Keyphrases

rheumatoid arthritis
postmenopausal women
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
systemic lupus erythematosus
ankylosing spondylitis
systemic sclerosis
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis