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Institut Català de la Salut, [Corominas H] Departament de Reumatologia, Hospital Sant Joan Despí Moises Broggi, Sant Joan Despí, Spain. [Alegre C] Servei de Reumatologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. [Narváez J] Departament de Reumatologia, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. [Fernández-Cid CM] Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. [Torrente-Segarra V] Departament de Reumatologia, Hospital General de l'Hospitalet, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. [Gómez MR] Department of Rheumatology, Complejo Hospitalario Cristal Piñor, Ourense, Spain., Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus |
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Rheumatoid arthritis; Fatigue; Tocilizumab Artritis reumatoide; Fatiga; Tocilizumab Artritis reumatoide; Fatiga; Tocilizumab To assess the hypothesis if tocilizumab (TCZ) is effective on disease activity, and also its effect in fatigue and other clinical and psychological disease-related factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with TCZ.A 24-week, multicenter, prospective, observational study in patients with moderate to severe RA receiving TCZ after failure or intolerance to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs or tumor necrosis factor-alpha was conducted.Of the 122 patients included, 85 were evaluable for effectiveness (85% female, 51.9 ± 12.5 years, disease duration 8.7 ± 7.4 years). Mean change in C-reactive protein level from baseline to week 12 was -11.2 ± 4.0 (P |