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Arzu Cennet Işık1, Murat Kavas2, Mehmet Engin Tezcan3
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kartal Dr. Lutfi Kirdar City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Introduction:
Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous multisystem inflammatory disease. An association between sarcoidosis and subclinical atherosclerosis has recently been demonstrated. However, there are limited publications on metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its metabolic changes in sarcoidosis. In this study, we evaluated our hypothesis that the frequency of MetS may also be increased in treatment-naive, newly diagnosed sarcoidosis patients.
Methods:
We included 133 newly diagnosed sarcoidosis patients, 133 age- and sex-matched controls, and 51 untreated rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients as diseased controls. We then compared the frequency of MetS and MetS-related items in the three groups. The criteria defined for metabolic syndrome in the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III report (ATP III) were used to diagnose MetS.
Results:
MetS was more common in sarcoidosis than controls (odds ratio, OR: 5.3; 95% confidence interval, CI 95%: 2.4-11.5; p < 0.001) and was similar to RA. In addition, triglyceride and glucose levels, diastolic blood pressure measurements, and waist circumference of female sarcoidosis patients were significantly higher than in controls.
Conclusion:
We show that MetS is a frequent feature of sarcoidosis even before treatment is started. Therefore, clinicians should be aware of MetS both during treatment and during the course of the disease to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events.
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