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[Relation of neopterin and beta 2 microglobulin to disease activity in chronic polyarthritis]
A Ulreich1, F Rainer, P Sedlmayr
1Institutsaussenstelle für klinische Rheumatologie und physikalische Medizin, Medizinischen Universitätsklinik Graz.
Acta Medica Austriaca
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The correlations of the serum levels of neopterin and beta-2-microglobulin with the disease activity-measured by a clinical index-were investigated in 41 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Both parameters correlated significantly with the sum of the used disease activity index. There was a closer correlation between the serum levels of beta-2-microglobulin and the sum of the index and most of the particular parameters of the index than it was seen for the neopterin serum levels.