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A Bayesian Joint model for Longitudinal DAS28 Scores and Competing Risk Informative Drop Out in a Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trial [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
Rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials are strategically designed to collect the disease activity score of each patient over multiple clinical visits, meanwhile a patient may drop out before their intended completion due to various reasons. The dropout terminates the longitudinal data collection on the patients activity score.
arxiv  

Effectiveness of a Telephone‐Delivered Walk With Ease Program on Arthritis‐Related Symptoms, Function, and Activity: A Randomized Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Walk With Ease (WWE) is a six‐week arthritis‐appropriate evidence‐based physical activity program traditionally offered in a face‐to‐face format. Because many populations encounter participation barriers to in‐person programs, WWE was modified for telephone delivery (WWE‐T).
Christine A. Pellegrini, Sara Wilcox, Yesil Kim, Scott Jamieson, Katherine DeVivo, Daniel Heidtke   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Earnings, and Work Loss: A Nationwide Matched Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study compares trajectories of earnings and work loss in individuals with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) versus matched comparators from the general population. Methods Patients with JIA (n = 4,737) were identified in the Swedish National Patient Register (2001–2017) and individually matched to up to five general population ...
Heather Miller, Martin Neovius, Erik Sundberg, Johan Askling, Gustaf Bruze   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse Treatment Goals in Psoriatic Arthritis: Insights from participants in the PARC cohort

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective The aim was to examine patient‐reported treatment goals among individuals with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods Participants in the Psoriatic Arthritis Research Consortium (PARC) completed standardized assessments including patient‐reported outcome (PROs) instruments between 2017‐2020.
Astia Allenzara, Kat Bush, M. Elaine Husni, Soumya M. Reddy, Jose U. Scher, Ethan Craig, Joelle Koplin, Jessica A. Walsh, Alexis Ogdie   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automatic Chronic Degenerative Diseases Identification Using Enteric Nervous System Images [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Studies recently accomplished on the Enteric Nervous System have shown that chronic degenerative diseases affect the Enteric Glial Cells (EGC) and, thus, the development of recognition methods able to identify whether or not the EGC are affected by these type of diseases may be helpful in its diagnoses.
arxiv  

Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing Resilience Coaching for Youth With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Pediatric Rheumatologists’ Perspectives

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) is a resilience coaching program designed for adolescents with chronic illness. We aimed to examine the perceived feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of PRISM among pediatric rheumatologists treating adolescents with chronic musculoskeletal pain and obtain recommendations for ...
Sabrina Gmuca, Anyun Chatterjee, Mackenzie McGill, Nellie Butler, Katherine S. Kellom, Jami F. Young, Tonya M. Palermo, Pamela F. Weiss, Abby R. Rosenberg, Peter F. Cronholm   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prescription analgesic overuse in older adults: Can we mitigate this growing problem?

AGING MEDICINE, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 294-296, December 2022., 2022
With older adults already on numerous prescription medications to manage their chronic conditions, the addition of pain medications could impose an even greater burden due to dependency issues. We need to understand the use of chronic pain medication, especially opioids, discuss current strategies and gaps, and offer potential solutions to mitigate ...
Sara Kakatkar, Aditya Narayan, Rajesh Balkrishnan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exosome application in treatment and diagnosis of B-cell disorders: leukemias, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis rheumatoid. [PDF]

Cell Mol Biol Lett, 2022
Karami Fath M, Azami J, Jaafari N, Akbari Oryani M, Jafari N, Karim Poor A, Azargoonjahromi A, Nabi-Afjadi M, Payandeh Z, Zalpoor H, Shanehbandi D.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Longitudinal Relationship Between Pain and Depression in People with Inflammatory Arthritis: a Narrative Review

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
As many patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) have chronic pain, understanding how to best assess and manage pain in IA is a priority. Co‐morbid depression is prevalent in adults with IA, affecting 15 to 39% of people. Whilst pain and depression are thought to be associated in IA, this concept is largely based on cross‐sectional data.
Natasha Cox, Saeed Farooq, Helen Twohig, Ian C Scott   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living life precariously with rheumatoid arthritis - a mega-ethnography of nine qualitative evidence syntheses

BMC Rheumatology, 2019
Background Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation. It affects around 400,000 people in the UK and 1 million adults in the USA. Given the appropriate treatment, many can have relatively few symptoms.
Fran Toye, Kate Seers, Karen Louise Barker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source