Effect of atorvastatin on inflammation and modification of vascular risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis.
| Autor: | El-Barbary AM; Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Elgesh Street, Egyt Tanta, 002 Egypt. ml_barbary@yahoo.com, Hussein MS, Rageh EM, Hamouda HE, Wagih AA, Ismail RG |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of rheumatology [J Rheumatol] 2011 Feb; Vol. 38 (2), pp. 229-35. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Nov 01. |
| DOI: | 10.3899/jrheum.100582 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To investigate the effect of atorvastatin therapy on inflammation, disease activity, endothelial dysfunction, and arterial stiffness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: This study included 30 patients with early RA, randomly divided into 2 groups. Group 1 (n = 15) received methotrexate (MTX; 0.2 mg/kg/week; mean (15.5 ± SD 1.3) plus prednisone (10 mg/day). Group 2 (n = 15) received MTX and prednisone with the same previous doses plus atorvastatin therapy (40 mg/day). Ten healthy individuals of similar age and sex served as controls. Disease activity, lipid profile, serum malondialdehyde (MDA), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), resistin, adiponectin, and brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) were measured before and after 6 months of treatment. Results: Atorvastatin combined with MTX therapy significantly reduced serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides, and increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (p < 0.001). Disease activity variables, serum MDA, TNF-α, resistin, adiponectin, and FMD were significantly improved by the drug combinations (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Atorvastatin therapy in patients with RA reduced disease activity and conventional and novel vascular risk factors that promote the atheromatous lesion. Therapy was also associated with concomitant improvement in endothelial function. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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