Studies on ageing and the severity of radiographic joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis
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Studies on ageing and the severity of radiographic joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis
INTRODUCTION The western population is ageing. It is unknown whether age at diagnosis affects the severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), we therefore performed the present study. METHOD 1,875 RA-patients (7,219 radiographs) included in five European and North-American cohorts (Leiden-EAC, Wichita, Umeå, Groningen and Lund) were studied on associations between age at diagnosis and joint damage...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arthritis Research & Therapy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1478-6354
DOI: 10.1186/s13075-015-0740-0