The aim of this study was to survey factors related to EULAR good response, the DAS-28 definition of remission, ACR 50 response, sustained response to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNF-I) therapy in biologic naïve patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis. This was a single center observational clinical prospective 2 years' study, EULAR response criteria, DAS 28, HAQ and radiographic ch...

OBJECTIVE To explore possible association between disease activity at 3-month follow-up after RA diagnosis and costs over the following 4 years. METHODS Three-hundred and twenty patients with early (≤ 1 year) RA were assessed at regular intervals. Clinical and laboratory data were collected and patients reported health-care utilization and number of days lost from work. At 3-month follow-up, ...

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory peripheral polyarthritis with unclear etiology. RA usually leads to joint deformity and cartilage destruction in joints of RA patients. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Islamic fasting on RA (rheumatoid arthritis) severity. Methods: A total number of 28 RA patients in an obser...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Vitamin D is a steroid hormone with important skeletal and non-skeletal biologic functions. Vitamin D deficiency is common and manifests with musculoskeletal symptoms. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), vitamin D deficiency may be associated with increased disease activity and disability. We aimed to estimate the relationship between Vitamin D level and disease activity, pa...

4. Der Begriff "Repräsentativität" 24 a) Strukturkonzept der Repräsentativität (RS) und der Stichprobenfehler (SF) 24 b) Das Miniaturkonzept der Repräsentativität (RM) 27 c) Das Stellvertreter (Vize) Konzept der Repräsentativität (RV) 28 d) "Coverage" oder Arche-Noah Konzept der Repräsentativität (RA) 29 e) Das Nichtselektivitätskonzept der Repräsentativität (RN) 30 f) Zufallsauswahl und Stichp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate frequency of fibromyalgia in rheumatoid arthritis and its effect on disease activity score. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Indus Hospital, Karachi, from December 2010 to May 2011. METHODOLOGY All adult patients of either gender diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis on the basis of clinical, laboratory and X-ray criteria were included ...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that is known to be associated with high cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. In this study, we aimed to demonstrate whether RA disease activity reflected with disease activity score-28 (DAS-28) had an impact on left ventricular diastolic functions and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness in RA patients with no ...

Samples of 10 and 14 Ctenocephalides felis felis fleas were collected on dogs from Pedreira and Mogi das Cruzes municipalities, respectively, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, for detection of Rickettsia spp. Individual fleas were submitted to Polymerase Chain Reaction targeting the 17-kDa and the 190-kDa (OmpA) genes of Rickettsiae. This later gene is specific for spotted fever group. Nine fl...

Objective. We evaluated fibromyalgic RA to determine its clinical impact, identification using core clinical assessments and influence identifying active disease using disease activity scores (DAS-28). Methods. We examined the impact and identification using core clinical assessments (tender minus swollen joint counts) of fibromyalgic RA (511 tender points) in initial (105 patients) and replica...