Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 is associated with atherosclerosis in patients with Behcet's disease.

Rabia Aydoğan Baykara Pinar Diydem Yilmaz Mevlut Hakan Goktepe Cengiz Kadiyoran Mustafa OgulAdem KucukMedine Cumhur Cure Erkan Cüre

Published in: Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) (2022)

There is a strong independent association between subclinical atherosclerosis and PCSK9 in patients with BD. There may be no independent association between PCSK9 and disease activity.

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