Authors: V. Kutal Authors‘ workplace: Soukromá revmatologická ambulance, Brno Published in: Čes. Revmatol., , 2002, No. 1, p. 7-10. Category:
Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease in the pathogenesis of which an important part isplayed also by reactive forms of oxygen. For compensation of chronic oxidation stress properfunctioning of antioxidant defence is needed. To elucidate its role the author assessed the antioxi-dant capacity in 120 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 51 controls. The antioxidant status wasmeasured by a set provided by Randox Co. using the ABTS method. The mean value of theantioxidant capacity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis was 1.581±1.31 mmol/l, in members of thecontrol group 1.666±0.136 mmol/l and the difference was highly significant ( p
Key words: total antioxidant status, rheumatoid arthritis
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