Jeremy J. Kaye

TL;DR: Quantitative radiographic scores for joint space narrowing erosion, and malalignment in the hands and wrists of 200 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were significantly correlated with duration of disease.

TL;DR: A simple self-report questionnaire provides information similar to many traditional measures in rheumatoid arthritis and appears to be an attractive, cost-effective approach to assessing and monitoring quantitatively the status of an individual patient.

TL;DR: In patients with RA, most measures of inflammatory activity were unchanged and sometimes better, while measures of damage indicated worse status in the same patients over 5 years, which may underestimate long-term outcomes in RA.

TL;DR: Possible associations between HLA-DR4 and laboratory, radiographic, joint count, functional, and demographic measures of clinical status were analyzed in 154 white patients with rheumatoid arthritis and patients who were putatively homozygous for HLA -DR4 were all seropositive and had more severe radiographic changes.

TL;DR: Two of the most widely used indices of RA disease activity, radiographic erosion scores and joint count scores for tenderness, were independent of one another at a selected timepoint and should be considered in the design of clinical trials and long-term observation of patients with RA.