The utility of 25-question Geriatric Locomotive Function Scale for evaluating functional ability and disease activity in Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients: A cross-sectional study using NinJa database.

Naohiro Izawa Jun Hirose Tomoko Fujii Hiroyuki Oka Kosuke Uehara Masashi Naito Takumi Matsumoto Sakae Tanaka Shigeto Tohma

Published in: Modern rheumatology (2018)

This study documents the GLFS-25 score distribution in Japanese RA patients and demonstrates that GLFS-25 is a useful measure for evaluating functional ability in RA.

Keyphrases

disease activity
rheumatoid arthritis patients
rheumatoid arthritis
systemic lupus erythematosus
ankylosing spondylitis
juvenile idiopathic arthritis
end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
systemic sclerosis
drug induced