Rheumatoid arthritis in Senegal: A comparison between patients coming from rural and urban areas, in an urban tertiary health care center in Senegal

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1617-1620

  Lekpa, Fernando Kemta ^a,b   Ndongo, Souhaïbou ^a,b   Tiendrebeogo, Joëlle ^a   Ndao, Awa Cheikh ^a   Daher, Abdikarim ^a   Pouye, Abdoulaye ^a   Ka, Mamadou Mourtalla ^a,c   Diop, Thérèse Moreira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^b Centre de Gériatrie et de Gérontologie L'Institution de Prévoyance Retraite du Sénégal   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Extra articular manifestations; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rural areas; Senegal; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RURAL AREA; SENEGAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84872193841     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-012-2054-9     Document Type: Article

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