Overweight decreases the chance of achieving good response and low disease activity in early rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2029-2033

  Sandberg, Maria E C ^a   Bengtsson, Camilla ^a   Källberg, Henrik ^a   Wesley, Annmarie ^a   Klareskog, Lars ^b   Alfredsson, Lars ^a,c   Saevarsdottir, Saedis ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY MASS; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; REMISSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY MASS INDEX; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899769960     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-205094     Document Type: Article

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