Muscle strength, pain, and disease activity explain individual subdimensions of the Health Assessment Questionnaire disability index, especially in women with rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-34

  Häkkinen, Arja ^a   Kautiainen, H ^b   Hannonen, P ^a   Ylinen, J ^a   Makinen H ^a   Sokka, T ^a,c  

^a JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b RHEUMATISM FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TRUNK; WALKING SPEED;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 29244439344     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2004.034769     Document Type: Article

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