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How to Monitor Disease Activity of Axial Spondyloarthritis in Clinical Practice
Purpose of ReviewTreatment guided by periodic and quantitative data assessment results in better outcomes compared to using clinical gestalt. While...
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Relationship between disease activity index and sleep disorders in children with inflammatory bowel diseases
The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of sleep disturbance in pediatric IBD patients and evaluate the relationship between clinical...
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Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on the clinical utility of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Foot Disease Activity Index
Although patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are recommended in clinical practice, their application in routine care is limited. The Rheumatoid...
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Clinical disease activity in autoimmune rheumatic patients receiving COVID-19 vaccines
BackgroundVaccines are a crucial component of the global efforts to control the spread of COVID-19. Very little is known about COVID-19 vaccine...
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Evaluation of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) as a tool for assessing disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis patients
ObjectivesRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease of unknown exact cause, characterized by chronic inflammation. The prognostic...
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Sjögren’s disease activity associates with cardiovascular disease and monoclonal gammopathy: a university cohort study of disease activity and comorbidities
BackgroundWe used the University of Wisconsin cohort to determine the extent to which the EULAR Sjögren’s syndrome disease activity index (ESSDAI)...
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Association between body mass index and age of disease onset with clinical outcomes in paediatric-onset Crohn’s Disease (CD): a UK nation-wide analyses using the NIHR-IBD BioResource
BackgroundThe evidence on the relationship between adiposity and disease outcomes in paediatric Crohn’s disease (CD) is limited and lacks consensus.
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Monocyte-to-high-density lipoprotein ratio and systemic immune-inflammation index: Potential parameters for the evaluation of disease activity and severity in Graves’ ophthalmopathy?
PurposeTo assess changes in monocyte-to-high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio (MHR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and systemic...
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Development of a novel clinimetric tool: PAtient Reported Disease Activity Index in Rheumatoid Arthritis (PARDAI-RA) by PANLAR, for the assessment of patients living with rheumatoid arthritis
BackgroundClinical experience has shown that a single measure is not sufficient to assess disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Various...
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The relationship between triglyceride-glucose index and prospective key clinical outcomes in patients hospitalised for coronary artery disease
BackgroundThe triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index is regarded as a dependable alternative for assessing insulin resistance (IR), given its simplicity,...
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Relationship of regional ultraviolet index data with rash and systemic disease activity in youth with childhood-onset systemic lupus: results from the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry
ObjectiveTo investigate the association between ultraviolet light index (UVI), as a marker for UV exposure, and seasonality with rash and systemic...
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Associations between clinical metrics of joint deformity, disease duration, disease activity, functional capacity, quality of life, pain, and fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
ObjectivesAim of this study is to clarify associations between metrics of patient’s clinical status statistically using retrospective cohort data.
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Changes in Clinical Activity, Serum Autoantibody Levels, and Chorioretinal Vessels After Systemic Glucocorticoid Therapy in Thyroid Eye Disease
IntroductionThe aim of this study was to investigate changes in the Clinical Activity Score, serum thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibody and...
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Forty-Eight-Month Monitoring of Disease Activity in Patients with Long-Standing Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with TNF-α Inhibitors: Time for Clinical Outcome Prediction and Biosimilar vs Biologic Originator Performance
Background and ObjectivesLong-term treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis with tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitors leads to initial changes...
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Using the derived 28-joint disease activity score patient-reported components (DAS28-P) index as a discriminatory measure of response to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis
BackgroundThe 28-joint disease activity score (DAS28) is a widely used measure to assess disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The DAS28-P...
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Postoperative Ustekinumab Drug Levels and Disease Activity in Patients with Crohn’s Disease
AimsThis study investigated how post-operative ustekinumab levels relate to surgery type, endoscopic, biochemical, and clinical outcomes in patients...
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Body mass index stratification enables cytokine-based prediction of ACPA status and Power-Doppler disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis
ObjectiveRheumatoid arthritis can be classified according to ACPA and RF status. ACPA status may be associated with other pathophysiological...
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Relationship of systemic type I interferon activity with clinical phenotypes, disease activity, and damage accrual in systemic lupus erythematosus in treatment-naive patients: a retrospective longitudinal analysis
BackgroundSystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is heterogeneous in organ involvement and disease severity, presenting a broad clinical phenotype....
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Interobserver Reliability and Sensitivity to Change of a Composite Ocular Inflammatory Activity Index: UVEDAI©
IntroductionThis was a multicenter, prospective, longitudinal, observational study involving eight Spanish tertiary hospitals to determine the...
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Relation between panoramic mandibular index and disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
BackgroundDEXA scan could be unavailable at some health centers, and radiologic examination of the mandible and oral cavity is considered more...
