You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 4, Issue 2
  • Low salivary cortisol levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis exposed to oral glucocorticoids: a cross-sectional study set within UK electronic health records

Article info

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Rheumatoid arthritis
Original article
Low salivary cortisol levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis exposed to oral glucocorticoids: a cross-sectional study set within UK electronic health records

Authors

  • Rebecca M Joseph Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, School of Biological Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David W Ray Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, School of Medical Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Brian Keevil Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tjeerd P van Staa Health eResearch Centre, Centre for Health Informatics, School of Health Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Faculty of Science, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • William G Dixon Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, School of Biological Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Health eResearch Centre, Centre for Health Informatics, School of Health Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Rheumatology Department, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to William G Dixon; will.dixon{at}manchester.ac.uk
View Full Text

Citation

Joseph RM, Ray DW, Keevil B, et al
Low salivary cortisol levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis exposed to oral glucocorticoids: a cross-sectional study set within UK electronic health records
RMD Open 2018;4:e000700. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000700

Publication history

  • Received April 12, 2018
  • Revision received July 9, 2018
  • Accepted July 18, 2018
  • First published October 1, 2018.
Online issue publication 
December 23, 2019

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0