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Anaemia may add information to standardised disease activity assessment to predict radiographic damage in rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study

Published inAnnals of the rheumatic diseases, vol. 73, no. 4, p. 691-696
Publication date2014
Abstract

Anaemia in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is prototypical of the chronic disease type and is often neglected in clinical practice. We studied anaemia in relation to disease activity, medications and radiographic progression.

Keywords
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anemia/blood/epidemiology/etiology
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/therapeutic use
  • Antirheumatic Agents/therapeutic use
  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid/complications/drug therapy/epidemiology/radiography
  • Blood Sedimentation
  • Disease Progression
  • Female
  • Hemoglobins/metabolism
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prognosis
  • Prospective Studies
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/antagonists & inhibitors
Citation (ISO format)
MÖLLER, Burkhard et al. Anaemia may add information to standardised disease activity assessment to predict radiographic damage in rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study. In: Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2014, vol. 73, n° 4, p. 691–696. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-202709
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