Muscle density in rheumatoid arthritis: Associations with disease features and functional outcomes

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2438-2450

  Kramer, Henry R ^a   Fontaine, Kevin R ^a   Bathon, Joan M ^b   Giles, Jon T ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHORT FORM 36; SITTING; THIGH FAT AREA; THIGH MUSCLE AREA; THIGH MUSCLE DENSITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84864471328     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.34464     Document Type: Article

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