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The relationship between hand osteoarthritis and serum leptin concentration in participants of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

INTRODUCTION: Leptin has been suspected to contribute to the development of osteoarthritis (OA). However, this hypothesis has not been tested in large-scale hand OA cohorts. Our study aimed to determine whether there is a cross-sectional relationship between serum leptin levels and hand OA in a popu...

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Autores principales: Massengale, Mei, Reichmann, William M, Losina, Elena, Solomon, Daniel H, Katz, Jeffrey N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22651805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar3864