Disease activity and low physical activity associate with number of hospital admissions and length of hospitalisation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Metsios, George S ^a,b,c   Stavropoulos Kalinoglou, Antonios ^a,b,c   Treharne, Gareth J ^b,d   Nevill, Alan M ^a   Sandoo, Aamer ^b   Panoulas, Vasileios F ^b   Toms, Tracey E ^b   Koutedakis, Yiannis ^a,c   Kitas, George D ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79959677510     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar3390     Document Type: Article

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