Báo cáo y học: "Cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the QUEST-RA study" pdf

... AA, Lazovskis J, Pincus T, QUEST-RA Group: Physical inactivity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: data from twenty-one coun- tries in a cross-sectional, international study. Arthritis Care ... Overall, 74% of patients had positive RF, ranging from 61% in Germany to 90% in Argentina. Extra-articular disease was present in 24% of patients, ranging from less th...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... specifically by the HAQ: dressing and grooming, arising, eating, walking, hygiene, reach, grip, and common daily activities. For each of these domains, patients report the amount of difficulty they have ... university clinics. Patients were entered into the cohort by their clinicians in the respective centers or by direct advertising in particular centers [6]. All patients h...

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... USA). Results Rheumatoid arthritis patients with and without cardiovascular disease The baseline characteristics of the RA patients with and with- out CVD in our study population are shown in Table ... Kleinheksel SM, Cathey MA: The mortality of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1994, 37:481-494. 2. Lindqvist E, Eberhardt K: Mortality in rheumatoid arthrit...

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... values. Results Forty patients with persistent allergic asthma were included in the study. In all patients, the skin-prick test was positive. Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus was the most positive single ... asthma. 7 Cholinergic nerves play an important role in the regulation of airway calibre in many species, including humans, and they form the dominant constrictor me...

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... considered. First, the patient selection procedures used in the present study may have led to biased sampling of patients, which in turn may limit the generalizability of the results. Since the patients with ... medical history and a thorough clinical examination by a physi- cian at the Department of Physical medicine at the Uni- versity Hospital. To be included in...

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... of patients in this preliminary study may be a limitation in that we may have coincidentally recorded 10 FM patients with a type-B response to occlusion of the blood flow. Further studies with ... far they have been predominantly found in healthy subjects [13]. They also show the same characteristics in therapy and there is so far no proof that one type predisposes to a ce...

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... groups. The significance of these differences is unknown and there was too much similarity between the kinematic data dis- played in each group to classify them as distinct foot types as the current ... contrary to the clinical paradigm. However, it should be reme mbered that these data only describe the position of the foot in each group relative to the position of the fe...

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... chemotherapy was not administered to any of the patients. The tumors were divided into proximal or distal by an imaginary line between the incisura and the mid-point of the greater curve. The patients ... malnour- ished patients or the occasional patient who underwent emergency surgery for bleeding from the tumor). Only patients in whom routine histological examinat...

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... estrogens in RA com- pared with OA or healthy controls. These findings support the concept of a systemic inflammatory disease in RA involving other hormone conversion sites, which is largely different ... concept regarding why most of the observed changes during the symptomatic phase of an inflam- matory disease, particularly in the symptomatic phase, are not specific for a...

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... scores during the drug therapy (Fig- ure 1). There were no significant changes in the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), the Human Activity Profile (HAP), the Dyspnea scale, or the Pain Disability Index ... to the manufacturer of the drug, and the patients were removed from the study. Discussion This report documents the findings from a pilot study involving a small num...

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