One third of Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis use complementary and alternative medicine

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 355-359

  Kajiyama, Hiroshi ^a   Akama, Hideto ^a   Yamanaka, Hisashi ^a   Shoji, Akira ^a   Matsuda, Yuko ^a   Tanaka, Eiichi ^a   Nakajima, Ayako ^a   Terai, Chihiro ^a   Hara, Masako ^a   Tomatsu, Taisuke ^a   Saitoh, Terunobu ^a   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Female predominance; Japanese patient; Patient satisfaction; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; CHONDROITIN; CREACTIVE PROTEIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; EMODIN; GINGER EXTRACT; GLUCOSAMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROPOLIS; ROYAL JELLY; STEROID;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; CHLORELLA; DATA BASE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33845538513     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-006-0521-3     Document Type: Article

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