Publications by authors named "L A Korswagen"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate if a combination of patient-reported outcomes related to health, disability, pain, quality of life, and fatigue could help detect active disease in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients.
- Researchers analyzed data from 683 RA patients and 525 PsA patients, measuring the correlation between changes in these outcomes and clinically defined active disease.
- Results showed that declines in general health, disability, quality of life, and pain were significantly linked to active disease, indicating that this combination of measures could effectively serve as a screening tool for monitoring these conditions remotely.
Objective: Persistent articular inflammation in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is associated with radiographic damage. Despite advances in diagnosis and therapy, radiographic structural damage remains prevalent in PsA. To elucidate this topic, we studied which baseline clinical characteristics determine radiographic progression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate whether there is a window of opportunity for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients and to assess which patient characteristics are associated with a longer diagnostic delay.
Methods: All newly diagnosed, disease-modifying antirheumatic drug-naïve PsA patients who participated in the Dutch southwest Early PsA cohoRt and had ≥3 years of follow-up were studied. First, total delay was calculated as the time period between symptom onset and PsA diagnosis made by a rheumatologist and then split into patient and physician delays.
Article Synopsis
- There is a need for a standardized method to measure disease activity in patients with psoriatic arthritis, leading to the development of the 3-item Visual Analogue Scale (3VAS) and 4-item Visual Analogue Scale (4VAS).
- A study involving 629 patients was conducted to assess the validity and responsiveness of these scales compared to other established measures, revealing significant correlations and responsiveness similar to existing standards.
- The findings suggest both scales perform well in identifying disease activity, with the 4VAS potentially being the better option due to its improved face validity.
Objectives: Achieving low disease activity (LDA) is important in patients with psoriatic arthritis. It is of value to know if health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients who reached musculoskeletal low disease activity can be further improved by additionally achieving remission of their psoriasis. So, the aim of this study was to assess HRQoL in patients with active psoriasis who reached disease activity in psoriatic arthritis (DAPSA) LDA after one year of follow-up.
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