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Rheumatoid arthritis patients with fibromyalgic clinical features have significantly less synovitis as defined by power Doppler ultrasound

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, September 2016
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Title
Rheumatoid arthritis patients with fibromyalgic clinical features have significantly less synovitis as defined by power Doppler ultrasound
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12891-016-1258-6
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Aneela N. Mian, Khaldoun Chaabo, Julekha Wajed, Sujith Subesinghe, Nicola J. Gullick, Bruce Kirkham, Toby Garrood

Abstract

In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) clinical measures of disease activity may not reliably discriminate between patients with active inflammatory disease and those with concomitant fibromyalgia (FM). Recent work has shown RA patients with a 28 tender joint count (TJC) minus swollen joint count (SJC) of 7 or more (joint count criteria) are more likely to meet classification criteria for FM. This study aimed to determine whether RA patients meeting clinical criteria for FM had lower levels of joint inflammation as determined by ultrasound (US). RA patients with DAS28 > 2.6 were recruited. Patients underwent clinical assessment including ultrasound examination of the hands and wrists with quantification of grey scale (GS) and power Doppler (PD) synovitis. Patients completed questionnaires to assess pain, fatigue, disability and psychological comorbidity. Patients meeting either of the FM criteria had higher scores for disease activity, depression, disability and fatigue. Those meeting both the joint count and classification FM criteria had significantly lower levels of GS and PD inflammation on US. RA patients with concomitant FM, as determined by widespread soft tissue tenderness but fewer clinically inflamed joints, have higher disease activity scores but may have lower levels of synovial inflammation on US. This has implications for the identification and management of these patients who may not respond to conventional therapy and hence be more suitable for alternative approaches to treatment.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Other 5 13%
Researcher 5 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 10%
Student > Master 4 10%
Other 7 18%
Unknown 9 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 50%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 13%
Psychology 2 5%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 9 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2016.
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#7,488,078
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#1,526
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#114,828
of 321,669 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#33
of 75 outputs
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