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Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS): defining cut-off values for disease activity states and improvement scores

2 Rheumatology Department, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Rheumatology Department, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Background The ...
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Smoking is a major preventable risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis: estimations of risks after various exposures to cigarette smoke

2 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet/Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Unit of Clinical Immunology, Uppsala University/Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden 4 ...
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Extra-articular disease manifestations in rheumatoid arthritis: incidence trends and risk factors over 46 years

2 Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 3 Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, ...
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Impact of pregnancy on health related quality of life evaluated prospectively in pregnant women with rheumatic diseases by the SF-36 health survey

Objective: To gain insight into patient experience of the disease course and health related quality of life during and after pregnancy in women with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.
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Dietary intake of fibre and risk of knee osteoarthritis in two US prospective cohorts

Objectives Dietary fibre reduces body weight and inflammation both of which are linked with knee osteoarthritis (OA). We examined the association between fibre intake and risk of knee OA. Methods We ...
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Does hydrotherapy improve strength and physical function in patients with osteoarthritis—a randomised controlled trial comparing a gym based and a hydrotherapy based ...

1 Flinders University Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia 2 Physiotherapy Department, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia ...
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Are patients with rheumatoid arthritis still at an increased risk of tuberculosis and what is the role of biological treatments?

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth V Arkema, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, T2, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17176, Sweden; Elizabeth.Arkema{at}ki.se Objective To estimate the risk of tuberculosis (TB) ...
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Methotrexate and early postoperative complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery

OBJECTIVES To determine whether continued methotrexate treatment increases the risk of postoperative infections or of surgical complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within one year ...
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Leflunomide: mode of action in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

a Academic Ziekenhuis Leiden, Stafcentrum Reumatologie, Leiden, The Netherlands, b Division of Immunology and Allergy, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland Professor F C Breedveld, Academic ...
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EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic ...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease encountered throughout Europe. A task force for the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Trials met in 1998 to determine the ...
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Assessment of bone in Ehlers Danlos syndrome by ultrasound and densitometry

Dr AL Dolan, Department of Rheumatology, Greenwich District Hospital, Vanburgh Hill, London SE10 9EH. OBJECTIVE Ehlers Danlos syndrome (EDS) is an inherited disorder of connective tissue characterised ...
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Studies with pain rating scales.

Good correlation has been shown between pain scores derived from 4 different rating scales. The correlation was maintained when presentation of the scales was separated by a series of questions and by ...