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OBJECTIVES:To establish the weight of the subjective components of the Disease Activity index for Psoriatic Arthritis (DAPSA) in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients and comorbid fibromyalgia syndrome (FM). METHODS:In PsA patients not fulfilling the DAPSA remission, it has been calculated the DAPSA-patient (DAPSA-P), an index represented by the ratio between the sum of the subjective components (tender joint count+patient global assessment of disease activity+visual analogue scale pain) and DAPSA in its entirety (swollen joint count+tender joint count+patient global assessment of disease activity+visual analogue scale pain+C-reactive protein [in mg/ dl]). The DAPSA-P ranges from 0 to 1, and values closer to 1 suggest a major weight of the subjective components, while values closer to 0 indicate a greater contribution of the swollen joint count and C-reactive protein, the two factors more closely related to inflammation. It was also defined as the presence of a comorbid FM, and it was established the DAPSA-P cut-off point distinguishing for the presence of a comorbid FM through the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. RESULTS:DAPSA-P was higher in all PsA+FM patients. Analysing the receiver operating characteristic curve, the DAPSA-P cut-off distinguishing a comorbid FM was 0.775. CONCLUSIONS:DAPSA-P can help to measure how comorbid FM inflates DAPSA.
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Clin Exp Rheumatoljournal_title
Clinical and experimental rheumatologyauthors
Di Carlo M,Tardella M,Di Matteo A,Beci G,De Angelis R,Salaffi Fsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-01-01 00:00:00pages
60-64issue
1eissn
0392-856Xissn
1593-098Xpii
14953journal_volume
38 Suppl 123pub_type
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
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更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Serum levels of the aminoterminal type III procollagen peptide (S-PIIINP) have been used as markers of proliferative inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a prognostic significance has been suggested. To test this further we have measured S-PIIINP longitudinally for 2 years in 66 patients with definite RA and ...
journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
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更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
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更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:Prediction and determination of drug efficacy for radiographic progression is limited by the heterogeneity inherent in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). We investigated whether unbiased clustering analysis of phenotypic data can lead to coherent subgroups of axSpA patients with a distinct risk of radiographic...
journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
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更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Heat shock proteins (HSP) are highly conserved molecules with scavenger activity that are involved in the correct folding of newly synthesized proteins. Increased T and B cell activity against 60/65 kD HSP is observed in different ethnic populations in Behçet's disease (BD) with both alpha beta and gamma delta T cell ...
journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In spite of our continuously improved pathobiological understanding, there is still no consensus on terminology and disease criteria in Sjögren's syndrome (SS). This survey points out discrepencies in the current description of the syndrome, and argues for a new classification model. We suggest that the present nomenc...
journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe and evaluate clinical and imaging differences between patients with familial and sporadic early spondyloarthritis (SpA). METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study analysing the baseline dataset from ESPERANZA, a national programme developed for the early identification of patients with SpA. Patie...
journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical and experimental rheumatology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
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