Incidence, risk factors and validation of the RABBIT score for serious infections in a cohort of 1557 patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Konstantinos ThomasArgyro LazariniEvripidis KaltsonoudisParaskevi V VoulgariAlexandros A DrososArgyro RepaAinour Molla Ismail SaliProdromos SidiropoulosPanagiota TsatsaniSousana GaziArgyriou EvangeliaKyriaki A BokiPelagia KatsimbriDimitrios BoumpasKalliopi FragkiadakiMaria G G TektonidouPetros P SfikakisKonstantina KaragianniLazaros I SakkasEleftheria P GrikaPanagiotis G VlachoyiannopoulosGerasimos EvangelatosAlexios IliopoulosTheodoros DimitroulasAlexandros GaryfallosKonstantinos MelissaropoulosPanagiotis GeorgiouMaria AretiConstantinos GeorganasPeriklis VounotrypidisGeorgios GeorgiopoulosGeorge D KitasDimitrios VassilopoulosPublished in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2021)
In this large real-life, prospective study of RA patients, the incidence of SI was 2.3/100 patient-years. Longer disease duration, history of previous SI, comorbidities and high glucocorticoid dose were independently associated with SI. The RABBIT score accurately predicted SI in our cohort.