Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with ornidazole. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study [1]

Rheumatology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 636-637

  Ogrendik, M ^a,c   Hakguder, A ^b   Keser, N ^a  

^a Nazilli State Hospital   (Turkey)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ORNIDAZOLE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORNING STIFFNESS; NAUSEA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORNIDAZOLE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646180678     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kel020     Document Type: Letter

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