Comorbidity clusters in patients with rheumatoid arthritis identify a patient phenotype with a favourable prognosis
Conclusions
More than 40% of patients with prevalent RA did not experience worse mortality than their peers without RA. The cluster with the worst prognosis (<10% of patients with prevalent RA) was older, had more comorbidities and had less disease-modifying antirheumatic drug and biological use compared with the other clusters. Comorbidity patterns may hold the key to moving beyond a one-size-fits-all perspective of RA prognosis.
Source: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - Category: Rheumatology Authors: Crowson, C. S., Atkinson, E. J., Kronzer, V. L., Kimbrough, B. A., Arment, C. A., Peterson, L. S., Wright, K., Mason, T. G., Bekele, D. I., Davis, J. M., Myasoedova, E. Tags: ARD, Rheumatoid arthritis Source Type: research
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