Persistence of mild, early inflammatory arthritis: The importance of disease duration, rheumatoid factor, and the shared epitope

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2184-2188

  Green, Michael ^a   Marzo Ortega, Helena ^a   McGonagle, Dennis ^a   Wakefield, Richard ^a   Proudman, Susanna ^b   Conaghan, Philip ^a   Gooi, Jimmy ^c   Emery, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; EPITOPE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EPITOPES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033495744     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199910)42:10<2184::AID-ANR20>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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