Extended report: Remission induction therapy with methotrexate and prednisone in patients with early rheumatoid and undifferentiated arthritis (the IMPROVED study)

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1472-1477

  Wevers De Boer, Kirsten ^a   Visser, Karen ^a   Heimans, Lotte ^a   Ronday, H Karel ^b   Molenaar, Esmeralda ^c   Groenendael, J Hans L M ^d   Peeters, André J ^e   Westedt, Marie Louise ^f   Collée, Gerard ^g   De Sonnaville, Peter B J ^h   Grillet, Bernard A M ⁱ   Huizinga, Tom W J ^a   Allaart, Cornelia F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c GROENE HART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d Franciscus Hospital   (Netherlands)

^e Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^f MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^g MCH   (Netherlands)

^h Admiraal de Ruyter Hospital   (Netherlands)

ⁱ ZorgSaam Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CECUM CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXITIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULITIS; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HAIR LOSS; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA; INTESTINE POLYP; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX RATIO; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN INFECTION; STOMATITIS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT DURATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 84864882763     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200736     Document Type: Article

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