Advances in application of metabolomics techniques to diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis / 中国药理学通报

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a high disability rate and unknown etiology.Early diagnosis and early treatment are essential to prevent the further development of the disease.In reeent years, metabolomics teeh- niques have been widely used in various fields of life sciences because of its wholism, dynamics, high sensitivity and high throughput.This artiele reviews the progress of metabolomics technology in various aspects of RA investigations sueh as early diagnosis, disease classification as well as drug efficacy prediction in order to provide new ideas for clinical diagnosis and treatment of RA from the metabolic perspective.