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Potential role of age, sex, body mass index and pain to identify patients with ...
Pereira, D; Severo, M; Ramos, E; Branco, J; Santos, RA; Costa, L; Lucas, R; Barros, HAim: To evaluate the potential role of age, sex, body mass index (BMI), radiographic features and pain in knee osteoarthritis (OA) case ascertainment. Methods: A cross‐sectional study was performed using information from the EPIPorto cohort; social, demographic, behavioral and clinical data was obtained. Pain was assessed using a pain frequency score (regarding ever having knee pain, pain in the last year, in t...
Knee and hip radiographic osteoarthritis features: differences on pain, functio...
Pereira, D; Severo, M; Santos, RA; Barros, H; Branco, J; Lucas, R; Costa, L; Ramos, EThe association between radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) and symptoms is inconsistent and variable according to each joint. The purpose of this study is to understand the relation between radiographic OA features, pain, function and quality of life, in knee and hip joints. A cross-sectional study was performed using information from EPIPorto cohort. Data was obtained by interview using a structured questionnair...
Osteoarthritis medical labelling and health-related quality of life in the gene...
Lourenço, S; Lucas, R; Araújo, F; Bogas, M; Santos, RA; Barros, HBackground: Osteoarthritis is the most common chronic joint disease. In the absence of an effective medical treatment and due to the chronic nature of this condition, an osteoarthritis medical diagnosis may finally result in decreased health-related quality of life. Therefore, the aim of this study was to measure the impact of the osteoarthritis medical labelling on physical and mental health-related quality of...
The effect of depressive symptoms on the association between radiographic osteo...
Pereira, D; Severo, M; Barros, H; Branco, J; Santos, RA; Ramos, EBackground: The progressive nature of knee osteoarthritis (OA) leads to not only to physical but also to psychosocial decline; this aspect can influence knee pain experience, manifestations and inevitably diagnostic accuracy. To analyze the role of depressive symptoms on the association between radiographic OA and knee pain, understanding the ability of knee pain symptoms to find out individuals with radiograph...
Spectrum of ankylosing spondylitis in Portugal. Development of BASDAI, BASFI, B...
Pimentel-Santos, FM; Mourão, AF; Ribeiro, C; Costa, J; Santos, H; Barcelos, A; Pinto, P; Godinho, F; Cruz, M; Vieira-Sousa, E; Santos, RA; Rabiais, SThe availability of population-specific normative data regarding disease severity measures is essential for patient assessment. The goals of the current study were to characterize the pattern of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in Portuguese patients and to develop reference centile charts for BASDAI, BASFI, BASMI and mSASSS, the most widely used assessment tools in AS. AS cases were recruited from hospital outpatie...
The effect of osteoarthritis definition on prevalence and incidence estimates: ...
Pereira, D; Peleteiro, B; Araújo, J; Branco, J; Santos, RA; Ramos, EObjective: To understand the differences in prevalence and incidence estimates of osteoarthritis (OA), according to case definition, in knee, hip and hand joints. Method: A systematic review was carried out in PUBMED and SCOPUS databases comprising the date of publication period from January 1995 to February 2011. We attempted to summarise data on the incidence and prevalence of OA according to different method...