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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

Identifying ‘non-progressors’ among patients with arthralgia

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Patients with clinically suspect arthralgia have articular symptoms such as pain and stiffness of the small joints without clinical signs of arthritis. Some of these patients progress and develop ‘true’ disease, but how can we differentiate evolving chronic disease from disease that will resolve?

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Fig. 1: Outcome of clinically suspect arthralgia over time.

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  1. Section Rheumatology, Sozialstiftung Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Axel J Hueber

  2. Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Gerhard Krönke

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Hueber, A.J., Krönke, G. Identifying ‘non-progressors’ among patients with arthralgia. Nat Rev Rheumatol 16, 251–252 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-020-0400-x

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