Decrease in Serum Interleukin-21 Levels Is Associated With Disease Activity Improvement in Patients With Recent-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis

Abstract

We found that baseline levels of IL-21 significantly correlated with disease activity and decrease in IL-21 levels correlated with improvement in disease activity after 12 weeks and also after 24 weeks of treatment

Keywords

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• disease activity
• IL-21