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The effect on treatment response of fibromyalgic symptoms in early rheumatoid arthritis patients: results from the ESPOIR cohort.
Rheumatology (Oxford)
December 2015
Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester and Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester, UK.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to determine if patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who also exhibit fibromyalgic characteristics (FRA) respond differently to treatment compared to those with RA alone, using standard disease activity measures.
- Researchers analyzed data from 813 early arthritis patients, focusing on 697 classified as RA, comparing those with FRA (120 patients) to those without (548 patients) over 6, 12, and 18 months.
- Results showed that patients with FRA had higher disease activity scores and were less likely to reach low disease activity or remission, indicating that although treatment response improved for both groups, FRA patients struggled to meet treatment targets.