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Due to the cross-sectional nature of the study, clinical remission was evaluated taking into account the severity criterion alone, excluding the duration criterion (remission maintained for six-months).
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In accordance with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) criteria, remission of RA was defined as DAS28 <2.6 and intermediate and high disease activity as DAS28 >3.2.
According to the EULAR criteria, remission of RA was defined as DAS28<2.6 and intermediate and high disease activity as DAS28>3.2 [ 12].
According to these criteria, remission is present if five of the following conditions are met: absence of morning stiffness, fatigue, joint pain, tenderness, and swelling and presence of normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
A cutoff-score of 12 points is an established criterion of remission proposed by Simpson et al. [ 11].
Furthermore, qualitative study has shown that patients regard the absence of stiffness as an important criterion for remission [ 34].
Limitations of this study include the use of the DAS28-CRP4 threshofd of 2.6 as the primary criterion for remission.
At baseline, 642 (84.5%) patients fulfilled the criterion of remission, which implies that 118 (15.5%) patients actually had not met one of the inclusion criteria.
All patients who met ACR/EULAR revised criteria for remission also met DAS28-CRP4 remission criteria.
Upon study completion at week 12, 18 MDD patients (75.0% of MDD completers) fulfilled criteria for remission and 19 MDD patients (79.1%) fulfilled criteria for clinical response.
The majority of the 2,284 patients in the sample did not meet the criteria for remission at enrollment (n = 1,738; 76.1%), while 23.9% patients did meet remission criteria.
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