Quality of life, exercise capacity, cognition, and mental health of Chilean patients after COVID-19: an experience of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program at a physical and rehabilitation medicine unit. [PDF]
Front Rehabil Sci, 2023 Paéz V +10 more
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.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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The Burden of Disability in Africa and Cameroon: A Call for Optimizing the Education in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. [PDF]
Front Rehabil Sci, 2022 Cannata G +5 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The study aimed to identify symptom‐based predictors of dry eye disease (DED) signs in the Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) cohort. Methods We performed a retrospective analysis examining 16 ocular symptoms (most graded 0–4) and artificial tear (AT) use (graded 0–3) as predictors of DED signs (abnormal ocular ...
Pragnya R. Donthineni +7 more
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Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head in a Patient with Behçet's Disease
The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2013 Behçet's disease (BD) is a vasculitis characterized by clinical exacerbations and remissions in which various types of blood vessels with different diameters and localizations are involved.[] Avascular necrosis of the femoral head due to obstruction of ...
Murat ERSÖZ +3 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To explore whether higher body fat and lower lean mass are associated with greater pain and worse patient‐reported physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA). A secondary aim was to examine whether pain and patient‐reported physical function differ according to four body composition profiles: high body fat, low lean mass ...
Alexandra Ryan +10 more
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Increased Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Female Patients With Fibromyalgia: A Preliminary Study
The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2015 Objectives: This study aims to measure the carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) of patients with fibromyalgia (FM) by using ultrasound imaging and to investigate whether carotid IMT measurements were associated with the severity of FM ...
Hüma BÖLÜK +3 more
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Common Bias and Challenges in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Research: How to Tackle Them. [PDF]
Front Rehabil Sci, 2022 Thibaut A +4 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.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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Name of our specialty in member countries of the European Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - does different names implicate different philosophy? [PDF]
Eur J Phys Rehabil Med, 2022 Grabljevec K +2 more
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