Sentence examples for fulfilment of classification from inspiring English sources

There is, however, a plethora of terms currently used to describe individuals in disease phases before the fulfilment of classification criteria for RA, including 'early RA'veryearlyandy RA' and 'pre-RA'.

Univariate logistic regression analysis showed that relative JNK activation at baseline was significantly related to fulfilment of classification criteria for RA after follow-up with an explained variance of 59% (R=0.59, p=0.02).

Currently there is a diversity of approaches to the dating of 'onset' in cohorts of patients with RA including from: the onset of any joint symptoms related to the current episode including arthralgia/morning stiffness; the onset of self-reported joint swelling; the onset of clinically observed swelling; the time of fulfilment of classification criteria for RA.

Predicting persistent inflammatory disease amongst EA clinic attendees, rather than mere fulfilment of classification criteria for RA (based on the 1987 ACR classification criteria for the disease), sets our study's objectives apart from those of van der Helm-van Mil et al. [ 7, 16], but our approach bears similarities with those of others.

In summary, baseline MBDA score did not inform fulfilment of RA classification criteria in patients with UA.

However, time interval from the onset of the first symptoms to the fulfilment of the classification criteria appears to be directly related to the initial anti-CCP level.

Disease-related characteristics included disease duration (years since fulfilment of the classification criteria of the IRD), comorbidity, a measure for disease activity and for radiographic damage.

To test whether baseline MBDA score or other disease activity measures were associated with fulfilment of RA classification criteria after 2 years, trends across the three groups (RA-RA, UA-RA and UA-UA) were evaluated using Jonckheere-Terpstra test.

11 The influence of remission was still significant even after controlling for several variables which may affect both the probability of being in remission and the risk of dying, including age, gender, smoking status, RF, baseline HAQ and disease activity variables, fulfilment of RA classification criteria and treatment.

However, many practicing physicians, in particular when they are less familiar with the multifaceted clinical appearances of these diseases, may be reluctant to begin administering potentially harmful drugs before a threshold of diagnostic certainty (such as the 'four criteria fulfilment' of the classification criteria for RA [ 8]) has been reached.

The classification of axial SpA was based on fulfilment of the ASAS classification criteria that are defined as follows: the presence of sacroiliitis by radiography or by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plus at least one SpA feature ("imaging arm") or the presence of HLA-B27 plus at least two SpA features ("clinical arm") [ 3, 4].