ANATOLIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, cilt.13, sa.4, ss.357-362, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: There are many studies demonstrating deteriorated ventricle and endothelium functions in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients. As FMF is an autoinflammatory disease with an ongoing inflammatory activity and inflammation plays an important role in the development and progression of atherosclerosis in some of the rheumatic diseases, we aimed to investigate the early markers of atherosclerosis in patients with FMF by the measurements of serum paraoxonase-1 (PON-1) activity mean platelet volume (MPV) and malondialdehyde (MDA) level.