Effect of Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide and HLA-DRB1 Subtypes on Clinical Disease Activity Index in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. Soleimani, A., Mobedi, Z., Al-E-Rasul, M., Sharifi, A., & Vardanjani, A. K. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR, 11(3):OC09–OC12, March, 2017.
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INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a crippling disease with a global prevalence of approximately 0.5%-1% in adults. Genetic, environmental and immunologic factors contribute importantly to pathogenesis of RA. American College of Rheumatology (ACR) assists in early diagnosis of the disease. AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of HLA-DRB1 gene and anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (CCP) antibody on Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) and to determine the frequency of HLA-DRB1 alleles in the patients with RA. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive-analytical study, 64 patients with RA referring rheumatology clinic of Hajar Hospital, Shahr-e-Kord, Iran were enrolled based on ACR criteria (1987) by convenience sampling. All patients were examined to assess primary CDAI and referred to laboratory for serologic tests [Rheumatoid Factor (RF) and anti-CCP]. After the patients' DNA was extracted, HLA-DRB1 was determined per single specific primer-polymerase chain reaction by inno-train kits. The patients were re-examined six months later. RESULTS: The most prevalent type of HLA-DRB1 in the studied patients was 04. In patients with HLA-DRB1 (04), HLA-DRB1 (01), and HLA-DRB1 (15), CDAI decreased pronouncedly after six months, but in other patients it did not (p\textless0.05). Of the patients, 81.3% had high titers of anti-CCP, but no association between anti-CCP and CDAI was found. CONCLUSION: RA could be a multifactorial disease. The patients with HLA-DRB1 (04), HLA-DRB1 (01) and HLA-DRB1 (15) showed a good response to routine treatments. The patients with HLA-DRB1 (04) are likely to have no decrease in secondary CDAI. High titers of anti-CCP in patients may indicate the severity of RA in the studied region and perhaps environmental, genetic and unknown or idiopathic factors are aetiologically crucial.
@article{soleimani_effect_2017,
	title = {Effect of {Anti}-{Cyclic} {Citrullinated} {Peptide} and {HLA}-{DRB1} {Subtypes} on {Clinical} {Disease} {Activity} {Index} in {Rheumatoid} {Arthritis} {Patients}},
	volume = {11},
	issn = {2249-782X},
	doi = {10.7860/JCDR/2017/8567.9436},
	abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a crippling disease with a global prevalence of approximately 0.5\%-1\% in adults. Genetic, environmental and immunologic factors contribute importantly to pathogenesis of RA. American College of Rheumatology (ACR) assists in early diagnosis of the disease.
AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of HLA-DRB1 gene and anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (CCP) antibody on Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) and to determine the frequency of HLA-DRB1 alleles in the patients with RA.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive-analytical study, 64 patients with RA referring rheumatology clinic of Hajar Hospital, Shahr-e-Kord, Iran were enrolled based on ACR criteria (1987) by convenience sampling. All patients were examined to assess primary CDAI and referred to laboratory for serologic tests [Rheumatoid Factor (RF) and anti-CCP]. After the patients' DNA was extracted, HLA-DRB1 was determined per single specific primer-polymerase chain reaction by inno-train kits. The patients were re-examined six months later.
RESULTS: The most prevalent type of HLA-DRB1 in the studied patients was 04. In patients with HLA-DRB1 (04), HLA-DRB1 (01), and HLA-DRB1 (15), CDAI decreased pronouncedly after six months, but in other patients it did not (p{\textless}0.05). Of the patients, 81.3\% had high titers of anti-CCP, but no association between anti-CCP and CDAI was found.
CONCLUSION: RA could be a multifactorial disease. The patients with HLA-DRB1 (04), HLA-DRB1 (01) and HLA-DRB1 (15) showed a good response to routine treatments. The patients with HLA-DRB1 (04) are likely to have no decrease in secondary CDAI. High titers of anti-CCP in patients may indicate the severity of RA in the studied region and perhaps environmental, genetic and unknown or idiopathic factors are aetiologically crucial.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR},
	author = {Soleimani, Akbar and Mobedi, Zahra and Al-E-Rasul, Maryam and Sharifi, Abolghasem and Vardanjani, Abdolrahim Kazemi},
	month = mar,
	year = {2017},
	pmid = {28511426},
	pmcid = {PMC5427352},
	keywords = {Human leukocyte antigen, Rheumatic diseases, Rheumatoid Factor},
	pages = {OC09--OC12},
}

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