Do patients with elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis have severe functional disability?

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-31

  Cho, Soo Kyung ^a,b   Sung, Yoon Kyoung ^a,b   Choi, Chan Bum ^a,b   Cha, Hoon Suk ^c   Choe, Jung Yoon ^d   Chung, Won Tae ^e   Hong, Seung Jae ^f   Jun, Jae Bum ^a   Kim, Jinseok ^g   Kim, Tae Hwan ^a   Kim, Tae Jong ^h   Koh, Eun Mi ^c   Lee, Hye Soon ⁱ   Lee, Jisoo ^j   Lee, Shin Seok ^h   Lee, Sung Won ^e   Yoo, Dae Hyun ^k   Yoon, Bo Young ^a   Bae, Sang Cheol ^a,b  

^a Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases   (South Korea)

^b Clinical Research Center for Rheumatoid Arthritis   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

^e Dong A University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g Jeju National University   (South Korea)

^h Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

ⁱ Hanyang University Guri Hospital   (South Korea)

^j Mokdong Hospital   (South Korea)

^k Inje University   (South Korea)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHOTREXATE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE DISABILITY INDEX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH KOREA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864099266     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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