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Assessment of Disease Activity, Structural Damage, and Function in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2766))

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The primary goal in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is to control disease activity, prevent structural damage in joints, and normalize function. Therefore, reliable tools are needed to disease activity, physical function, and radiographic progression in RA. We herein describe methods recently used to assess RA.

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  1. Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

    Jun Ishizaki & Hitoshi Hasegawa

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan

    Shuang Liu

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Ishizaki, J., Hasegawa, H. (2024). Assessment of Disease Activity, Structural Damage, and Function in Rheumatoid Arthritis. In: Liu, S. (eds) Rheumatoid Arthritis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2766. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3682-4_33

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