High disease activity is a predictor of cortical hand bone loss in post-menopausal patients with established rheumatoid arthritis:n a 5-year multicentre longitudinal study

摘要

Objective. The objective of this study was to examine 5-year change in cortical hand BMD in female RA patients with established disease. Further, possibly baseline predictors of 5-year loss in digital X-ray radiogrammetry (DXR)-BMD were studied.