Bone loss in patients with active early rheumatoid arthritis: Infliximab and methotrexate compared with methotrexate treatment alone. Explorative analysis from a 12-month randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1898-1901

  Haugeberg, G ^a,b   Conaghan, P G ^c   Quinn, M ^c   Emery, P ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HAND BONE; HIP; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MEASUREMENT; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE DENSITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 72249085325     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2008.106484     Document Type: Article

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