Predictors of health-related quality of life in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: exploratory linear regression analyses of data from the CORRA study
- Conditions
- M05Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031193
- Lead Sponsor
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 375
Diagnosis of RA according to the ACR/EULAR 2010 criteria (Aletaha et al. 2010)
- Duration of disease less than three years
- Active disease: DAS 28 (ESR) > 4 and = 3 swollen joints (40 joints considered)
- Sufficient compliance with medication and attendance at examination appointments expected according to the physician's assessment
- Legal capacity
- Sufficient knowledge of German (for independent completion of the questionnaires)
- Written consent to participate in the study
- Known hepatitis B or C infection
- Creatinine clearance< 30 ml/minute
- clinically relevant haematological disease
- uncontrollable diabetes mellitus
- uncontrollable arterial hypertension
- relevant immunodeficiency incl. HIV infection
- clinically significant pulmonary fibrosis
- history of malignant melanoma
- uncontrollable intraocular hypertension
- no sufficient compliance
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method