Conclusion: Treated sarcoidosis patients exhibit a relation between physical fatigue, reduced motivation and total fatigue and pre-exercise plasma IL-1[beta] concentrations. Acute exercise does not increase PCLs. Whether the reduced MRC score and physical fatigue in treated patients is related to the therapy or to the underlying inflammatory process is difficult to determine. Please cite this [...]

Authors: Takatori S, Kamata Y, Murosaki T, Iwamoto M, Minota S PMID: 20040649 [PubMed - in process] (Source: J Rheumatol) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources. Source: MedWorm: Sarcoidosis