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Poor clinical response in rheumatoid arthritis is the main risk factor for diabetes development in the short-term: A 1-year, single-centre, longitudinal study.

Roberto CaporaliFrancesco UrsiniPaola CiprianiVasiliki LiakouliFrancesco CarubbiOnorina BerardicurtiGiovambattista De SarroRoberto Giacomelli
Published in: PloS one (2017)
Our study supports the hypothesis of a significant short-term risk of T2D in RA patients and of a close associations between uncontrolled disease activity and glucose metabolism derangement. Further multicentre, randomised-controlled studies are surely needed in order to elucidate these findings and to better ascertain the possible contribution of different therapeutic regimens to reduce this risk.
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