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A Cross-sectional Study on Grip Ability Test and its Relation with “Hy” Band: Surrogate Marker for Amyloidosis in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019
Introduction: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of autoimmune origin. The disease has specific predilection for small joints of the body especially joints of the hand.
KR Senthil Kumari, GJ Swetha Varsha
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Influence of Ambient Air Pollution on Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Score Index

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune of an unknown etiology. Air pollution has been proposed as one of the possible risk factors associated with disease activity, although has not been extensively studied.
Ahmad R. Alsaber, Jia-Zhu Pan, A. Al-Herz, Dhary S. Alkandary, A. Al-Hurban, P. Setiya, On Behalf Of The Pac-Copd Study Group   +6 more
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Histologic scoring indices for evaluation of disease activity in Crohn’s disease [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017
Histologic assessment of mucosal disease activity has been increasingly used in clinical trials of treatment for Crohn's disease. However, the operating properties of the currently existing histologic scoring indices remain unclear.A systematic review was undertaken to evaluate the development and operating characteristics of available histologic ...
Gregor, Novak, Claire E, Parker, Rish K, Pai, John K, MacDonald, Brian G, Feagan, William J, Sandborn, Geert, D'Haens, Vipul, Jairath, Reena, Khanna   +8 more
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Effect of an 8-Week Yoga-Based Lifestyle Intervention on Psycho-Neuro-Immune Axis, Disease Activity, and Perceived Quality of Life in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Various external stressors and environmental challenges lead to the provocation of the immune system in autoimmune diseases like Rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Surabhi Gautam, Manoj Kumar, Uma Kumar, Rima Dada   +3 more
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Effect of neridronate on axial involvement in patients with spondyloarthritis when biologics are not possible. Results of a monocentric study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
IntroductionThis study aims to examine the potential effectiveness of intravenous neridronate (IVNer) on axial involvement in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) refractory to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) but not eligible for ...
Chiara Crotti, Raffaele Di Taranto, Raffaele Di Taranto, Francesco Orsini, Francesco Orsini, Matteo Ferrito, Matteo Ferrito, Massimo Varenna, Ennio Giulio Favalli, Ennio Giulio Favalli, Roberto Caporali, Roberto Caporali   +11 more
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Effect of Islamic Fasting on the Severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis [PDF]

Journal of Fasting and Health, 2020
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
Shirin Assar, Pegah Almasi, Afshin Almasi   +2 more
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Ultrasound and multi-biomarker disease activity score for assessing and predicting clinical response to tofacitinib treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

BMC Rheumatology, 2020
Background Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) and the multi-biomarker disease activity (MBDA) score are outcome measures that may aid in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.
A. Razmjou, Jenny Brook, D. Elashoff, G. Kaeley, Ho-Choi Soo, T. Kermani, V. Ranganath   +6 more
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A patient-derived disease activity score can substitute for a physician- derived disease activity score in clinical research [PDF]

Rheumatology, 1999
Joint counts have a central role in assessing disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They are usually undertaken by physicians or nurses. We investigated whether joint counts can be devolved to patients and evaluated the use of a patient-derived Disease Activity Score (DAS).One hundred RA patients attending a specialist unit were evaluated ...
D A, Houssien, G, Stucki, D L, Scott
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Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index-5: Utility in busy clinical settings

Indian Journal of Rheumatology, 2017
Objective: To assess disease activity using Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index-5 (RADAI-5) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its correlation with Disease Activity Score using 28 joint count (DAS28) and Clinical Disease Activity ...
Harpreet Singh, Vikram Singh Tanwar, Gagandeep Sukhija, Rekha Mathur, Parminder Kaur   +4 more
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Validation of a score tool for measurement of histological severity in juvenile dermatomyositis and association with clinical severity of disease. [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES: To study muscle biopsy tissue from patients with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) in order to test the reliability of a score tool designed to quantify the severity of histological abnormalities when applied to biceps humeri in addition to ...
Pilkington, Clarissa A, Varsani, Hemlata, Marie, Suely KN, Lundberg, Ingrid E, Sallum, Adriana M E, Banwell, Brenda, Sallum, Adriana ME, Corse, Andrea M, Charman, Susan C, Jacques, Thomas S, Amato, Anthony A, Bove, Kevin E, Emslie-Smith, Alison M, Marie, Suely K N, Holton, Janice L, Nennesmo, Inger, Rushing, Elisabeth J, UK Juvenile Dermatomyositis Research Group, Li, Charles K, Amato, Anthony, Minetti, Carlo, Sewry, Caroline, Wedderburn, Lucy R, Bove, KE, Banwell, B, Varsani, H, Emslie-Smith, AM, Marie, SKN, Corse, AM, Li, CK, Jacques, TS, Amato, AA, Charman, SC   +32 more
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