Increasing age at symptom onset is associated with worse radiological damage at presentation in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-393

  Bukhari, Marwan ^a   Lunt, Mark ^a   Barton, Anne ^a   Bunn, Dianne ^b   Silman, Alan ^a   Symmons, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EROSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FOOT JOINTS; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34147207551     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.055657     Document Type: Article

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