Objective Frailty occurs prematurely in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with poor health outcomes. We compared the performance of four frailty instruments, including a pragmatic alternative measure using chair sit‐to‐stand (STS), and evaluated their abilities to predict poor health outcomes.
Kylie E. Riggles +14 more
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An Inverse Generalized Conversion Filter for State Estimation in Nonlinear Adversarial Sensing Systems. [PDF]
Xi YA, Dong XH, Wu SY.
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Objective The objective of this study was to estimate the minimal important change (MIC) and minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for pain and physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA) following a physiotherapist‐guided exercise intervention.
Yareni Guerrero +8 more
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Refinements and Generalizations of the Shannon Lower Bound via Extensions of the Kraft Inequality. [PDF]
Merhav N.
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High Health Care Utilization Preceding Diagnosis With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Objective Although early diagnosis improves long‐term outcomes, patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) often experience prolonged, circuitous paths to diagnosis. To inform diagnostic improvement, we sought to characterize health care utilization in the year preceding diagnosis. Methods We identified 10,021 patients with an incident diagnosis
Anna Costello +5 more
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Construction of a regression model and post-procedure care strategy for predicting atrial fibrillation recurrence risk after radiofrequency ablation using combined P-wave electrocardiographic markers and serum. [PDF]
Zhao D, Chen Y, Zhang H, Yang L.
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up
Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker +14 more
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Modeling of complex physical and biological problems using bi-univalent function calculus. [PDF]
Saleh ZM +3 more
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Objective Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a cornerstone therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but the weight‐based dosing does not account for clinical factors that can introduce individual variability in drug metabolism and clearance. We leveraged longitudinal data from a prospective SLE cohort to identify clinical factors that predict ...
Jay J. Patel +6 more
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Predictors of exacerbation in myasthenia gravis after minimal symptom expression: a bicenter cohort study. [PDF]
He D +9 more
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