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Factors affecting walking ability in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Yugo MoritaHiromu ItoMie ToriiAkiko HanaiMoritoshi FuruMotomu HashimotoMasao TanakaMasayuki AzukizawaHidenori AraiTsuneyo MimoriShuichi Matsuda
Published in: PloS one (2018)
High knee extension strength, low disease activity and administration of methotrexate were strongly associated with good walking ability in female patients with RA. And, even if patients showed good HAQ scores, about quarter of those patients had poor walking ability, and they showed higher disease activity, lower knee extension strength, compared to the patients with normal gait speed.
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