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Study highlights another reason to keep RA under control
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John Gever, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
August 22, 2024
Patients with highly active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experienced faster declines in kidney function than those whose disease was under better control, analysis of a large registry indicated.
Compared with RA patients in clinical remission, rates of decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) over an average of 4.7 years of follow-up were greater by 0.09 to 0.18 mL/min/1.73 m2 annually among those with progressively greater disease activity (all P
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