Tenderness and radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.
Irina GesslClaudia A HanaThomas DeimelMartina DurechovaMiriam HuckeVictoria KonzettMihaela PopescuPaul StudenicGabriela SuppMichael ZaunerJosef S SmolenDaniel AletahaPeter MandlPublished in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2022)
Our findings imply that tenderness in non-swollen joints in RA is associated with subsequent damage. In both diseases, additional risk factors, such as sonographic signs for synovitis and baseline radiographic damage are associated with radiographic progression.