Financial Distress and Its Determinants in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Objective To quantify the degree of financial distress and identify its determinants in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given the frequent prolonged use of expensive disease‐modifying therapies. Methods We identified adults enrolled in the FORWARD databank with either RA or noninflammatory musculoskeletal disease (NIMSKD) completing the ...
Amber Brown Keebler +5 more
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Development and Evaluation of a Software Designed by a Nursing and Technology Team to Assess the Health Status of Adults over 65 Years of Age. [PDF]
Pérez Cantó V +7 more
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Percepción del estado de salud en la región central colombiana: encuesta nacional de salud, 2007
Objetivo Determinar los perfiles del estado de salud de las personas de 6 a 69 años de la región central Colombiana, participantes de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud, 2007.Métodos En la Encuesta participaron 18 683 personas entre 6 y 69 años de la región central Colombiana.
Agudelo-Londoño, Sandra M +2 more
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Objective Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are present at high titers in 2% of the general population, but their clinical significance in individuals without an autoimmune (AI) disease is not known. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of a high ANA titer in non‐AI conditions is associated with disease.
Matthew Chung +7 more
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[Health and nutrition educational intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evolution of nutritional and food security indicators in Mexican women]. [PDF]
Monroy-Torres R +2 more
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Objective Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease defined by recurrent cartilaginous inflammation. Anti–collagen II (Col2) antibodies have been proposed as a diagnostic biomarker for RP, but their performance characteristics are not well defined.
Karyssa Stonick +6 more
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[Chemsex and sexual risk in men who have sex with men: A scoping review]. [PDF]
Ayuga-Luque MÁ +2 more
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Objective We evaluated the role of 25‐hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D), prednisone, and other risk factors for bone mineral density (BMD) loss and osteoporosis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods We calculated the association between 25(OH)D levels and other potential risk factors and BMD measures (spine T scores) and osteoporosis (defined as a T ...
Nima Madanchi +4 more
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[Health disparities and legislative determinants in Latin America: Multivariate comparative analysis of life expectancy, infant mortality, and immunization in Chile, Colombia, and Honduras (2011-2019)]. [PDF]
Estupiñan Ruiz CA +2 more
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Objective We aimed to validate the Pediatric Arthritis Ultrasound Scoring System (PAUSS) for upper extremity joints in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Methods Children with JIA were evaluated for elbow, wrist, or finger arthritis by clinical examination (CE) and musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) with images scored according to the ...
Patricia Vega‐Fernandez +12 more
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