Development of functional impairment and disability in rheumatoid arthritis patients followed for 20 years: Relation to disease activity, joint damage, and comorbidity

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 340-348

  Kapetanovic, Meliha C ^a   Lindqvist, Elisabet ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^a   Geborek, Pierre ^a   Saxne, Tore ^a   Eberhardt, Kerstin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; JOINT INJURY; LARSEN SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNALS OF FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT; AGE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE COURSE; JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923299510     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.22458     Document Type: Article

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