Association of morbid obesity with disability in early inflammatory polyarthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-126

  Humphreys, J H ^a   Verstappen, S M M ^a   Mirjafari, H ^a   Bunn, D ^b   Lunt, M ^a   Bruce, I N ^a   Symmons, D P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY POLYARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; POLYARTHRITIS; SMOKING;

AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84871756288     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21722     Document Type: Article

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