Association between rheumatoid arthritis disease activity, progression of functional limitation and long-term risk of orthopaedic surgery: combined analysis of two prospective cohorts supports EULAR treat to target DAS thresholds

Autor: Elena, Nikiphorou, Sam, Norton, Adam, Young, Lewis, Carpenter, Josh, Dixey, David Andrew, Walsh, Patrick, Kiely, Tanya, Potter
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Immunology
Rheumatoid Arthritis
DMARDs (biologic)
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology
Arthritis
Rheumatoid
03 medical and health sciences
Disability Evaluation
0302 clinical medicine
Rheumatology
Risk Factors
Internal medicine
Severity of illness
Epidemiology
medicine
Immunology and Allergy
Humans
Cumulative incidence
Orthopedic Procedures
030212 general & internal medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Prospective Studies
Prospective cohort study
Disease Activity
Aged
030203 arthritis & rheumatology
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Middle Aged
Clinical and Epidemiological Research
medicine.disease
Treatment
Rheumatoid arthritis
Physical therapy
Disease Progression
Female
business
DMARDs (synthetic)
Rheumatism
Follow-Up Studies
Zdroj: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
ISSN: 1468-2060
Popis: Objectives To examine the association between disease activity in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), functional limitation and long-term orthopaedic episodes. Methods Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) disability scores were collected from two longitudinal early RA inception cohorts in routine care; Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study and Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network from 1986 to 2012. The incidence of major and intermediate orthopaedic surgical episodes over 25 years was collected from national data sets. Disease activity was categorised by mean disease activity score (DAS28) annually between years 1 and 5; remission (RDAS≤2.6), low (LDAS>2.6–3.2), low-moderate (LMDAS≥3.2–4.19), high-moderate (HMDAS 4.2–5.1) and high (HDAS>5.1). Results Data from 2045 patients were analysed. Patients in RDAS showed no HAQ progression over 5 years, whereas there was a significant relationship between rising DAS28 category and HAQ at 1 year, and the rate of HAQ progression between years 1 and 5. During 27 986 person-years follow-up, 392 intermediate and 591 major surgeries were observed. Compared with the RDAS category, there was a significantly increased cumulative incidence of intermediate surgery in HDAS (OR 2.59 CI 1.49 to 4.52) and HMDAS (OR 1.8 CI 1.05 to 3.11) categories, and for major surgery in HDAS (OR 2.48 CI 1.5 to 4.11), HMDAS (OR 2.16 CI 1.32 to 3.52) and LMDAS (OR 2.07 CI 1.28 to 3.33) categories. There was no significant difference in HAQ progression or orthopaedic episodes between RDAS and LDAS categories. Conclusions There is an association between disease activity and both poor function and long-term orthopaedic episodes. This illustrates the far from benign consequences of persistent moderate disease activity, and supports European League Against Rheumatism treat to target recommendations to secure low disease activity or remission in all patients.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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