Frequência de síndrome metabólica em pacientes com artrite reumatoide.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease systemic, autoimmune and chronic that preferentially affects joints peripheral. The metabolic syndrome (MS) corresponds to a set of factors of classical cardiovascular risk, with cardiovascular disease currently the cause of mortality in patients with RA. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this work is to evaluate the frequency of metabolic syndrome in patients treated at the outpatient clinic of Rheumatoid Arthritis at the University Hospital Alcides Carneiro in Campina Grande – PB METHOD: Retrospective study, using demographic and clinical data of patients contained in the medical records, applying the criteria of Metabolic Syndrome of the NCEP ATP III (2005) for the early diagnosis of association of such comorbidities. RESULTS: Metabolic syndrome was observed in 29 patients (41.4%) with rheumatoid arthritis. The frequency of metabolic syndrome was significantly higher among patients who had fasting blood glucose ≥ 100 (86.7%), triglycerides ≥ 150 (76.9%) and abdominal circumference ≥ 88 (52.3%). CONCLUSION: Our study found similar results with other studies in literature, corroborating the significant frequency of MS in patients with RA, although the result can be quite different due to the variability sociodemographic characteristics of the populations studied.