Hakan Babaoglu, Berkan Armagan, Erdal Bodakci, Hasan Satis, Nuh Atas, Alper Sari, Nazife Sule Yasar Bilge, Reyhan Bilici Salman, Gozde Kubra Yardımcı, Aslihan Avanoglu Guler, Hazan Karadeniz, Levent Kilic, Mehmet Akif Ozturk, Berna Goker, Seminur Haznedaroglu, Umut Kalyoncu, Timucin Kasifoglu, Abdurrahman Tufan
OBJECTIVE: Persistent inflammation is an insidious and less studied feature of FMF. We investigated clinical determinants of persistent inflammation and its associations with individual damage items. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional analysis of 917 FMF patients, who fulfilled the Tel Hashomer criteria and had at least 6 months' follow-up. Patients were stratified based on whether they had persistent inflammation. We used logistic regression analysis to investigate independent predictors of persistent inflammation and the associated individual damage items...
August 10, 2020: Rheumatology