Remission in early rheumatoid arthritis defined by 28 joint counts: Limited consequences of residual disease activity in the forefeet on outcome

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Van Tuyl, Lilian H D ^a   Britsemmer, Karin ^b   Wells, George A ^c   Smolen, Josef S ^d   Zhang, Bin ^e   Funovits, Julia ^d   Van Schaardenburg, Dirkjan ^b   Felson, David ^e   Boers, Maarten ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Reade   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

28 JOINT COUNT; 38 JOINT COUNT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; JOINT EXAMINATION; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT JOINTS; FOREFOOT, HUMAN; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955216243     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2011.153742     Document Type: Article

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