Cachexia measured by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis and risk of infection in women with rheumatoid arthritis.

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"Funding The research leading to these results received funding from CONACyT through the Research Project Grant 000000000261652 and by sponsoring the scholarship of Midori Ogata Medel during her PhD course study. The sponsor did not have any role in study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, or in writing and submitting this paper for publication."

"The present study was a secondary analysis performed between February 2019 and February 2020 of a registered clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02900898, September 14, 2016). The rationale for the trial design, details, and eligibility features, as well as the main results, has been published previously []. Briefly, women > 18 years old with confirmed RA diagnosis were recruited during ambulatory visits at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, a tertiary care center in Mexico City. Patients with end-stage renal disease, hepatic failure, cancer, or another autoimmune disease that overlapped were excluded to avoid confusion with changes in body composition. The original study aimed to assess the effects of a dynamic exercise program (DEP) in combination with a Mediterranean diet (MD) in women with RA and comprised three intervention groups (MD + DEP, MD, DEP) and one control group []."