Obesity: Friend or Foe in Sjögren’s Syndrome Patients?
Kincső Mezei, Laura Nagy, Viktória Orosz, Zsófia Aradi, Bernadett Bói, Antónia Szántó · 2024
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Kincső Mezei and co-authors ask, in 2024, whether obesity helps or harms people with Sjögren's syndrome, an immune disease that destroys moisture glands. The team compared one hundred twenty-five patients grouped by body mass index, split at the usual obesity cutoff. They looked at disease activity, other conditions, lab values, and treatments.
Diabetes and high blood pressure were more common in the heavier group, and several lab values differed. Yet other immune disorders and organ effects did not differ between groups. Heavier patients needed steroids less often but blood fat drugs more often. Obesity, the picture suggests, brings metabolic burdens without clearly worsening the immune disease itself.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kincső Mezei, Laura Nagy, Viktória Orosz, Zsófia Aradi, Bernadett Bói, Antónia Szántó |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |