[Depressive symptoms in early rheumatoid arthritis : Within the rheumatism network ADAPTHERA].

CONCLUSION: Screening of early arthritis patients for the presence of depressive symptoms is of essential importance. Patients seem to be at high risk of developing depressive symptoms especially at the beginning of the disease and when showing high disability and poor results on disease activity score (DAS28 and visual analog scale).
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Source: Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie - April 22, 2019 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Triantafyllias K, Leiß R, Dreher M, Schwarting A Tags: Z Rheumatol Source Type: research