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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in rheumatoid arthritis and implications for the use of DMARDs – an in-hospital analysis

Paper C Not peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

Researchers counted how many hospital patients with rheumatoid arthritis also had chronic kidney disease, and what that meant for their arthritis drugs. Several of those drugs are cleared by the kidneys, so doses may need to change when kidney function drops. This is an observational count from one hospital, so it shows a link between the two conditions, not that one causes the other. No patient numbers or rates are given in the record available here.

Who did this work

Susann Patschan · Max Fuhrmann · Inga Claus · Daniel Patschan

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-09-09
https://doi.org/10.3205/26rhk188