Patients with RA have higher risk of developing diabetes

The inflammatory pathways involved in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus (DM) also play an important role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore, it comes as no surprise that RA is associated with an increased risk of DM. Given that inflammation is a key factor in the onset and progression of DM and that RA is an inflammatory autoimmune disease, an association between the two conditions seems probable. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to investigate the relation between RA and the incidence of DM [1]. Dr Zixing Tian (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and colleagues presented the results of their comprehensive search up to March 10, 2020 in Medline, Embase, and the Web of Science core collection to identify cohort studies comparing DM incidence in people with RA to that in the general population. This resulted in 3,667 articles from which 47 studies were identified after screening. Of those, 5 journal articles and 2 c...

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Posted on 14 December, 202017 December, 2020