Elderly- versus younger-onset rheumatoid arthritis: Higher levels of ultrasound-detected inflammation despite comparable clinical disease activity

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 304-308

  Dejaco, Christian ^a   Duftner, Christina ^b   Wipfler Freissmuth, Edith ^c   Weiss, Helmut ^d   Schneider, Thomas ^b   Schirmer, Michael ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b General Hospital Kufstein   (Austria)

^c KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

^d GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; DAS28; ECHOGRAPHY; ELDERLY ONSET RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; FEMALE; GLOBAL ULTRASOUND SCORE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JOINT EFFUSION; JOINT HYPERTROPHY; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PHYSICIAN; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPLIFIED DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; WRIST; YOUNGER ONSET RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; JOINTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84873165366     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21823     Document Type: Article

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