Respiratory symptoms and disease characteristics as predictors of pulmonary function abnormalities in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an observational cohort study |
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| Authors: | Dimitrios A Pappas Jon T Giles Geoffrey Connors Noah Lechtzin Joan M Bathon Sonye K Danoff |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1830 E. Monument Street, 5th Floor, 21202 Baltimore, MD, USA |
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| Abstract: | Introduction Lung involvement is a common extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that confers significant morbidity and mortality. The objective of the present study is to assess which respiratory symptoms and patient and disease characteristics are most highly associated with pulmonary function test (PFT) abnormalities in an RA patient cohort without clinical cardiovascular disease. |
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