Rheumatoid arthritis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 733-745

  Carmona, Loreto ^a   Cross, Marita ^b   Williams, Ben ^c   Lassere, Marissa ^c   March, Lyn ^b  

^a UNIDAD DE INVESTIGACIÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Epidemiology; Mortality; Rheumatoid; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ARTHRITIS; ASIAN; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79958811382     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2010.10.001     Document Type: Review

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