Spinsterhood and its impact on disease features in women with rheumatoid arthritis

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yacoub, Yousra I ^a   Amine, Bouchra ^a   Laatiris, Assia ^a   Hajjaj Hassouni, Najia ^a  

^a Hopital El Ayachi   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SINGLE WOMAN; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WIDOW; FAMILY SIZE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SINGLE PERSON; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 80052391017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-58     Document Type: Article

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