Targeting Low Disease Activity in Elderly-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current and Future Roles of Biological Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 97-107

  Sugihara, Takahiko ^a   Harigai, Masayoshi ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; ADALIMUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; TOCILIZUMAB; TOFACITINIB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

AGE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELDERLY ONSET RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE DISORDER; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORAX DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE COURSE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; LATE ONSET DISORDER; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ACUITY;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LATE ONSET DISORDERS; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ACUITY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84958772088     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40266-015-0341-2     Document Type: Review

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