The natural course of health-related quality of life in patients with clinically suspect arthralgia: a longitudinal study in progressors and non-progressors to rheumatoid arthritis.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with clinically suspect arthralgia (CSA) are at risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It is unknown whether CSA patients have a deprived health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL), how this develops over time, and whether it differs between those who develop RA and those who do not. Using three unique cohorts, we explored the course of HRQoL in CSA patients and after inflammatory arthritis (IA, in this case defined as being either undifferentiated arthritis (UA) or RA) diagnosis. Longitudinal cohort data were used from two CSA cohorts (n = 507) and an IA cohort (n = 282). HRQoL as measured with the EuroQol-5 Dimensions-5 levels (EQ-5D-5 L) questionnaire was compared between CSA patients who develop IA and who do not. We estimated the course of EQ-5D-5 L scores with linear m

SUBMITTER: Bour S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12009239 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature