Rheumatic symptoms and rheumatoid factor: an addendum

Prevalence of rheumatic symptoms, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and gout in Shanghai, China: a COPCORD study.

OBJECTIVE To carry out a cross-sectional survey on prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and gout. METHODS In Shanghai, 4 communities comprising 7603 inhabitants over 15 years of age in an urban population were randomly selected from 13 communities. Interviews were conducted from September 1997 to March 1998 by trained physicians using...

[Rheumatic symptoms in primary hyperparathyroidism].

In a retrospective survey of 34 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT), 18 (53%0 complained of musculo-skeletal symptoms during the 12 months before the diagnosis was made and 9 (26%) attended at some time for either a rheumatological or orthopaedic consultation. Myalgia was the most frequently reported symptom which occurred in 41% of patients. Arthralgia, mainly affecting the large j...

Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide, rheumatoid factor, and ocular symptoms typical of rheumatoid arthritis.

PURPOSE To correlate the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies and rheumatoid factor (RF) with ocular symptoms typical of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The records of 451 patients who had been examined by an ophthalmologist and tested for anti-CCP antibodies over a 3-year period at the Mayo Clinic were reviewed. Records of 255 patients with titers of anti-CC...

Role of vessel factor in oxygen uptake study (an addendum).

Rheumatoid factor in cases of rheumatic fever and parasitic infestation in children.

The incidence of rheumatoid factor in inflammatory disorders of connective tissue, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, has been discussed by Ziff (1957), Black, Goldin, Poske, and Malmed (1959), Bywaters, Carter, and Scott (1959), Kellgren and Ball (1959), Dixon (1960), and Hill and Greenbury (1965), and in other rheumatic and non-rheumatic diseases by Ziff (1957), Kellgren and Ball (1959), and ...