Incidence of clinically important 10-year health status and disease activity levels in population-based cohorts with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-60

  Ødegård, Sigrid ^a,b   Kvien, Tore K ^a   Uhlig, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

10 Year outcome; Annual incidence; Disease activity score; Health status; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTHRITIS IMPACT MEASUREMENT SCALES; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; PAIN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 38149132378     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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