Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index-5 : an easy and effective way of monitoring patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Joint Authors
Kalra, Ankit
Tanwar, Vikram S.
Saini, Anjali
Sukhija, Gagandeep
Arora, Samir
Singh, Harpreet
Source
Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
Issue
Vol. 46, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.269-277, 9 p.
Publisher
The Egyptian Society for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation
Publication Date
2019-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Objective To study the utility of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index-5 (RADAI-5) as a valid tool for daily rheumatoid arthritis (RA) monitoring and to compare its predictability to assess RA activity with respect to Disease Activity Score 28 (DAS28) and Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI).
Patients and methods A total of 100 patients with RA (diagnosed as per American College of Rheumatology 1987 criteria) were enrolled in the study group.
Each patient was assessed two times with 3-month interval for disease activity (DA) using DAS28, CDAI, and RADAI-5.
Spearman’s correlation coefficient () for correlation and kappa for agreement between different activity measures were assessed.
Results In our study group, 19% patients were men and 81% patients were women, with male to female ratio of 1 : 4.3.
Their mean age was 44.4±11.8 years, and their mean disease duration was 67.5±59.8 months.
On initial visit, that is, baseline, mean DA as per RADAI-5, DAS28, and CDAI were 5.14±2.17, 5.58±1.55, and 27.96±15.46, respectively, and on follow-up visit, the readings were 3.76±1.92, 4.54±1.41, and 17.67±12.46, respectively.
The mean changes in DA at follow-up visit were −1.37 ±2.15 by RADAI-5, −1.04±1.58 by DAS28, and −10.29±15.75 by CDAI.
Changes in DA indices correlated significantly with each other with ranging from 0.8 to 0.9 (P<0.001).
An average agreement was found among all three measures at different DA level.
Conclusion RADAI-5 seems to be an effective tool with high tendency to assess the changes in RA DA in routine patient care in hospital settings as well as in home-based settings.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Tanwar, Vikram S.& Singh, Harpreet& Saini, Anjali& Sukhija, Gagandeep& Arora, Samir& Kalra, Ankit. 2019. Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index-5 : an easy and effective way of monitoring patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation،Vol. 46, no. 4, pp.269-277.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-899725
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Tanwar, Vikram S.…[et al.]. Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index-5 : an easy and effective way of monitoring patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Vol. 46, no. 4 (Oct. / Dec. 2019), pp.269-277.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-899725
American Medical Association (AMA)
Tanwar, Vikram S.& Singh, Harpreet& Saini, Anjali& Sukhija, Gagandeep& Arora, Samir& Kalra, Ankit. Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index-5 : an easy and effective way of monitoring patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation. 2019. Vol. 46, no. 4, pp.269-277.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-899725
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 276-277
Record ID
BIM-899725