Health status in rheumatoid arthritis over 7 years

Rheumatoid arthritis is milder in the new millennium: health status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 1994-2004

“…It has specifically been suggested to examine the possible effect of time of disease onset longitudinal outcomes in the ORAR 6. Our analyses demonstrated that patients with more recent disease onset had more favourable effects on longitudinal health outcomes (fig 1), with better physical function, less pain and higher utility.…”

“…Changes over time are typically studied in a setting of longitudinal observational studies of a patient cohort,5 and patient registers provide a setting with a high level of internal validity 6. The Oslo RA register (ORAR) provides data that are representative for the entire population in this geographic area.…”

Changes in priorities for improvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis during 1 year of anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment

“…This suggests that priorities for improvement are quite stable over time and not clearly associated with achieved improvements in health status. However, the authors performed a cross-sectional comparison on two partially overlapping populations, thus complicating the interpretation of the results 23. Moreover, the observed improvements in health status were only minimal 23…”

Change of Psychological Distress and Physical Disability in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Over the Last Two Decades

“…Also, our patient sample had a uniform disease duration. Therefore, in contrast with other cross-sectional population studies (24 -27), the effect of year of assessment was not confounded by disease duration (50). Lastly, our data covered more recent years than previous population studies (23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)37,49); therefore, effects of the newest treatments were included.…”