Identification of risk factors for elevated serum IgG4 levels in subjects in a large-scale health checkup cohort study

IntroductionTo allow the identification of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) from a subclinical phase as it is important to understand the risk of elevated serum IgG4 levels. We planned to evaluate serum IgG4 levels in the participants of the Nagasaki Islands Study (NaIS), a large-scale health checkup...

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Main Authors: Yoshika Tsuji, Tomohiro Koga, Fumiaki Nonaka, Kenichi Nobusue, Shin-ya Kawashiri, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Takahiro Maeda, Kazuhiko Arima, Kiyoshi Aoyagi, Meiko Takahashi, Shuji Kawaguchi, Fumihiko Matsuda, Hiroshi Fujii, Mitsuhiro Kawano, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Atsushi Kawakami, Mami Tamai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1124417/full