Báo cáo y học: " Percentile benchmarks in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Health Assessment Questionnaire as a quality indicator" pot

... helpful in assessing the quality of medical care, using data that can be easily obtained in day-to-day practice of medicine. Func- tional disability is an outcome in rheumatoid arthritis that is modifiable ... were women and 89% were Caucasian; the median baseline age was 58.4 years and the median baseline HAQ-DI was 1.13. Few patients were treated with biologics. The HAQ-DI val...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... Martin Bergman, Taylor Hospital, Ridley Park, PA; Argentina: Sergio Toloza, Santiago Aguero, Sergio Orellana Bar- rera, and Soledad Retamozo, Hospital San Juan Bautista, Catamarca, and Paula ... Dijkmans BAC, Voskuyl AE: Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are asso- ciated with a reduced risk for cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a case control...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... and bronchodilator response in airways. In our patients with allergic asthma, FEV 1 increased by 18.39% after salbutamol inhalation, whereas after ipra- tropium, FEV 1 increased by 19.14%. Our ... complexity of chronic airway inflammation and remodelling in asthma, even if the activity of allergy-related airway inflammation is known. In this study, responses to salbutamol are bett...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... Psychiatry 1988, 145:950-954. 15. Aaron LA, Bradley LA, Alarcon GS, Alexander RW, Triana Alexander M, Martin MY: Psychiatric diagnoses in patients with fibromy- algia are related to health care-seeking ... general population living in the same area as the two patient groups. The fibromyalgia patients underwent a detailed medical history and a thorough clinical examination by...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... arteries with a concomitant increase of the vessel tonus. Both types A and B are biphasic and are classified as 'normal', because so far they have been predominantly found in healthy subjects [13]. ... temperature was maintained between 22°C and 24°C. Patients were exam- ined in a sitting position after a resting time of at least 20 minutes. The capillaries were ev...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... paradigm of foot function. Rather than break the paradigm down into its constituent assumptions and evaluate each in isolation, in this study we chose the take a pragmatic approach to evaluating the ... skin having distinct boundaries with normal skin, and a regular oval outline (Figure 1). Whilst no measure of foot posture or type was used, anecdotally, subjects in Group 1 had a...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... respectively; inter- and intraassay coefficient of variation for all assays: <10%. Presentation of data and statistical analysis Data in the table are given as means ± SEM and data in figures are ... estrogens in synovial tissue. We have to emphasize again that OA and RA patients suffer from similar chronic inflammatory diseases in the advanced phase, best demonstrated by simil...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... metatarsal area of a study participant with RAFigure 1 A MSUS image of the left foot plantar metatarsal area of a study participant with RA. The MSUS image demonstrates bursitis as a demarcated ... weight and limb dominance were obtained from the clinical notes and rheumatology department database. Clinical characteris- tics included visual analog scale (VAS 100 mm) assess- me...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... pain, and also that other factors than pain severity, such as catastrophizing[24,25] may predict quality of life even better than pain severity. Previous studies have also indicated that pain ... increase the level of life satisfaction in individual patients. Pain reduction has been associated with increased quality of life after treatment with for instance a coxiber[27], and f...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... present as an asymptomatic variant and with neck pain alone [7]. In this paper we review the incidence of impingement syn- drome in association with whiplash injuries in a group of patients presenting ... subacromial impingement in patients com- plaining of shoulder pain following neck injuries instead of merely blaming radicular neck pain as the cause. In fact careful...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20