Abstract:Background
Early arthritis (EA) is one of the difficult patient groups with the right timing of disease modifying anti-rheumatismal drugs (DMARDs).
Objectives
To assess long term outcome, drug free remission rates of patients with EA and classification based on 1987 ACR (1) or 2010 ACR/EULAR (2) rheumatoid arthritis (RA) criteria.
Methods
Patients with arthritis with symptom duration of at least 3 months were assessed. Unclassified arthritis (UA) or patients classified as RA were included. Steroids were gi… Show more
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