TY - JOUR
T1 - Frequency of infections among rheumatoid arthritis patients, before and after disease onset
AU - Vandenbroucke, Jan P.
AU - Kaaks, Rudolf
AU - Valkenburg, Hans A.
AU - Boersma, Johannes W.
AU - Cats, Arnold
AU - Festen, Johan J.M.
AU - Hartman, Arend P.
AU - Huber‐Bruning, Olga
AU - Rasker, Johannes J.
AU - Weber, Jacobus
PY - 1987/1/1
Y1 - 1987/1/1
N2 - The self‐reported frequency of genitourinary and bronchopulmonary infections in postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in postmenopausal women with osteoarthritis and/or soft tissue rheumatism was compared. Neither before, nor after the onset of joint disease was a higher frequency reported by the RA patients. The previously established increased mortality from infectious disease among RA patients might be due to a more severe infectious disease course, leading to an increased case‐fatality rate.
AB - The self‐reported frequency of genitourinary and bronchopulmonary infections in postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in postmenopausal women with osteoarthritis and/or soft tissue rheumatism was compared. Neither before, nor after the onset of joint disease was a higher frequency reported by the RA patients. The previously established increased mortality from infectious disease among RA patients might be due to a more severe infectious disease course, leading to an increased case‐fatality rate.
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U2 - 10.1002/art.1780300711
DO - 10.1002/art.1780300711
M3 - Article
C2 - 3619963
AN - SCOPUS:0023200492
SN - 0004-3591
VL - 30
SP - 810
EP - 813
JO - Arthritis & rheumatism
JF - Arthritis & rheumatism
IS - 7
ER -