Aim of the study In this study, serum lipokalin 2 (LCN-2) levels and its clinical and radiological significance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis was evaluated. Material and methods The study enrolled 37 patients with RA and 34 healthy controls. Serum LCN-2 level was measured using ELISA method. Patients with DAS 28 scores ≤ 3.2, and > 3.2 were allocated into lower and high/moderate disea...

The Disease Activity Score using 28 joint counts (DAS28) has been developed in a cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in which only conventional anti-rheumatic treatments were used. It has extensively been validated to monitor disease activity in daily clinical practice as well as in clinical trials. The study of Vander Cruyssen and colleagues showed that the DAS28 correlated best with ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. METHODS A PMR activity score (AS) was designed and assessed for internal and external validity in two patient cohorts: 57 international patients evaluated primarily for development of the PMR-AS at baseline, weeks 4 and 24; and for validatio...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to compare the sleep quality between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and healthy controls; and to evaluate the relationship between RA disease activity and sleep quality in Korea. METHODS A total of 130 RA patients and 67 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were enrolled in a comparative study of sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality I...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep quality and the related variables in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Ninety-four patients diagnosed with RA and fifty two healthy controls were enrolled in the study. Disease activity was assessed through the Disease Activity Score (DAS) 28 scale. All patients were assessed using the Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality of Life a...

INTRODUCTION The 2012 Consensus of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (SBR) for the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) recommends that patients should regularly perform physical exercises. There have been no studies in Brazil on physical activity among patients with early RA. OBJECTIVE To investigate the physical activity practice among patients with early RA and the possible associati...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of one course of rituximab (two 1-g doses) compared to an alternative tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) blocker in rheumatoid arthritis patients who had experienced one previous TNFα blocker failure (eg, etanercept, adalimumab, or infliximab). PATIENTS AND METHODS The efficacy of both treatments was studied in this retrospective, multicenter, noninterventional coho...

BACKGROUND Clinical disease activity index (CDAI) and simplified disease activity index (SDAI) are useful tools for the evaluation of disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but have not been comparatively validated in Moroccan population. Therefore, this study was designed to assess validity and reliability of CDAI and SDAI in comparison to disease activity score-28 joints...

Background Although many predictors have been proposed to predict rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity, most of these markers are not specific RA and their levels can be affected by other factors. The need for ideal activity in continues. association netrin-1 with has evaluated before. Objectives This study aimed investigate the plasma molecule patients its relationship activity. Methods ...