Chronic kidney disease in rheumatoid arthritis patients
The comparative analysis of two groups of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA): with chronic renal disease (15 patients) and absence of a renal disease (30 patients) has allowed revealing risk factors of development of chronic renal disease. It fixed, that rising C-reactive protein (CRP) associates with development of renal dysfunction, not being thus independent predictor of renal defeat. The risk of development of a renal defeat raises in process of duration RA. Carotid intima-media thickness authentically is higher in group of patients RA with chronic renal disease