Clinical Characteristics of frailty in Japanese Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The relationship between clinical characteristics and frailty was investigated in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients >40 years old.

Methods

RA patients followed for >1 year were interviewed and diagnosed as frail according to a 5-item frailty score index: (1) weight loss >2 kg within 6 months (WL); (2) slower gait speed (GS); (3) exercise less than once per week (EX); (4) decline in short-term memory (SM); and (5) general fatigue in the past 2 weeks (GF). The relationship between frailty status and background parameters was evaluated.

Results

Among 739 subjects, frail patients comprised 221, pre-frail patients comprised 203, and robust comprised 315. The most common symptom in the Frailty group was GS, followed by SM, GF, EX, and WL, whereas the most common

SUBMITTER: Yoshii I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275781 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature