Sentence examples for maximum disease duration from inspiring English sources

The maximum disease duration was 2 years.

Patients had a maximum disease duration of 6 months, were at least 18 years of age, and had active disease defined as a disease activity score in 28 joints (DAS28ESR) greater than 5.1.

Initial MTX monotherapy (group 1) and the combination of MTX with adalimumab (group 2) in early RA (maximum disease duration 6 months) were compared in the prospective, unblinded, randomized, 1 year GUEPARD trial [ 25].

Adult patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (defined by a maximum disease duration of 1 year since diagnosis) were eligible for inclusion if the investigator was convinced that they might profit from treatment with leflunomide and if they did not show any contraindications.

The patients were all MTX-naïve and had relatively short disease duration (maximum of 2 years) [ 2].

The EDSS median was 4.75 (minimum 1.00, maximum 8.00), and the median disease duration was 9.86 years (minimum 0, maximum 31).

We had access to longitudinal follow-up data on patients without erosions up to 10 years after disease onset; therefore, patients allocated to the erosive group also had a disease duration of a maximum 10 years.

We also evaluated the association between biomarker levels and the continuous variables age, maximum Rodnan skin score (range, 0 51), and disease duration.

The median disease duration was 8.6 years (minimum-maximum 0.2 21.2 years).

Participants were then selected from the list of all willing patients by the maximum variation strategy [ 38] based on the criteria disease duration and age group.

Control neurons had low or negative Bcl-2 signals, in agreement with a previous report, whereas Bcl-2 labeling was stronger in HD neurons, and Bcl-2 expression reached maximum in the brains of HD patients with longer disease duration.