TY - JOUR AU - Kata, Faris AU - Alsulaitti, Saad W. AU - Adlan, Muneera M. PY - 2022/01/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Leptin and Vascular Cell Adhesion Protein 1 as Physiological Biomarkers in Serum of Women Suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis JF - Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - Open Access Maced J Med Sci VL - 10 IS - A SE - Pathophysiology DO - 10.3889/oamjms.2022.8208 UR - https://oamjms.eu/index.php/mjms/article/view/8208 SP - 164-169 AB - <div><p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BACKGROUND: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p></div><div><p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">AIM: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p></div><div><p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">MATERIALS AND METHODS: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">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).</span></p></div><div><p class="Pa6"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">RESULTS: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">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 &lt; 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.</span></p></div><div><strong>CONCLUSIONS: </strong>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.</div> ER -