Leptin and Vascular Cell Adhesion Protein 1 as Physiological Biomarkers in Serum of Women Suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis

Faris Kata; Saad W. Alsulaitti; Muneera M. Adlan

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2022.8208

Authors

Faris Kata Department of Biology
Saad W. Alsulaitti Basrah General Hospital, Basrah Health Directorate, Ministry of Healthy, Basrah, Iraq
Muneera M. Adlan Department of Biology, College of Education for Pure Science, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2022.8208

Keywords:

Biomarkers, Leptin, Rheumatoid arthritis, Vascular cell adhesion protein 1

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis is defining as a common chronic and inflammatory disorder of systematic autoimmune disease. Leptin is a small peptide hormone involved in the inflammatory and immunomodulators processes of several diseases.

AIM: The study aimed at evaluating the level of leptin and Vascular Cell Adhesion Protein 1 (VCAM-1) and proves that they act as vital markers in the serum of rheumatoid arthritis.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, 80 serum samples from women were obtains (56 serum samples were distributing for women with rheumatoid arthritis and 24 serum samples for uninfected women who were considered a healthy group).

RESULTS: There are no significant difference in the concentration of the leptin hormone in the serum of both patients and healthy women, and that age, period, and severity of the disease had no effect on the level of leptin hormone. However, the results confirmed that at the probability level p < 0.05 the VCAM-1 concentration increased significantly in patients’ serum when compared with the healthy group, and demonstrated that age groups only affected the VCAM-1 biomarker level.

CONCLUSIONS: Our current study concludes that leptin levels in the serum were not impacts by the inflammatory state in patients with rheumatism, whereas VCAM-1 level in rheumatic patients may be associate with inflammatory reactions.

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