The Correlations Between Disease Specific Quality of Life, Short Form-36 and Clinical Variables in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis.

Hakan Alkan Necmettin Yıldız Füsun Ardiç

Published in: Archives of rheumatology (2020)

There was a strong correlation between ASQoL and disease activity as well as the patients' global health status in patients with AS. A cutoff value of eight in ASQoL could be used with good discriminative properties for impaired QoL in AS.

Keyphrases

ankylosing spondylitis
disease activity
rheumatoid arthritis
systemic lupus erythematosus
end stage renal disease
rheumatoid arthritis patients
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
juvenile idiopathic arthritis
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported outcomes