The good EULAR response at the first year is strongly predictive of clinical remission in rheumatoid arthritis: results from the TARAC cohort

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-49

  Darawankul, Budsakorn ^a   Chaiamnuay, Sumapa ^a   Pakchotanon, Rattapol ^a   Asavatanabodee, Paijit ^a   Narongroeknawin, Pongthorn ^a  

^a PHRAMONGKUTKLAO HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Prognostic factor; Remission; Rheumatoid arthritis; TARAC cohort

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAS28; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DISEASE DURATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOTHERAPY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84940767174     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-014-2749-1     Document Type: Article

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