Severity and Diurnal Improvement of Morning Stiffness Independently Associate with Tenosynovitis in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Although morning stiffness has long been recognized as a characteristic feature of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it is no more included in the 2010 ACR/EULAR Classification Criteria or in the current major instruments for evaluating disease activity of RA. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to det...

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Main Authors: Yoshihisa Kobayashi, Kei Ikeda, Takayuki Nakamura, Mieko Yamagata, Takuya Nakazawa, Shigeru Tanaka, Shunsuke Furuta, Takeshi Umibe, Hiroshi Nakajima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5113064?pdf=render