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See Latest ArticlesAssessment of serum nitrite as biomarker of disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis
Indian Journal of Rheumatology , 07/31/09
Kumar A et al. – Serum nitrite level was increased eight folds in patients with AS when compared with controls. Thus its measurement holds promise in differentiating between inflammatory and mechanical low back pain. However, there was no variation across a range of levels of disease activity making it unsuitable as a biomarker to monitor disease activity in AS.
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