Table 1 |
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Patient characteristics in the QUEST-RA study per country |
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Country |
Number of sites |
Number of patients |
Age in years (mean) |
Female (%) |
Years of education (mean) |
Disease duration in years (mean) |
RF-positive (%) |
Extra-articular diseasea (%) |
Cardiovascular events (all)b (%) |
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Denmark |
3 |
301 |
58 |
76 |
11 |
12 |
74 |
34 |
9.97 |
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Finland |
3 |
304 |
59 |
72 |
10 |
13 |
75 |
18 |
11.18 |
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France |
4 |
389 |
55 |
78 |
11 |
13 |
75 |
21 |
3.60 |
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Germany |
3 |
225 |
59 |
84 |
10 |
13 |
61 |
36 |
17.78 |
|
Ireland |
3 |
225 |
57 |
64 |
11 |
11 |
81 |
30 |
6.67 |
|
Italy |
4 |
336 |
61 |
78 |
8 |
10 |
73 |
13 |
8.93 |
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Netherlands |
3 |
317 |
59 |
68 |
11 |
9 |
69 |
13 |
9.46 |
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Poland |
7 |
642 |
53 |
86 |
12 |
11 |
71 |
33 |
11.84 |
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Spain |
3 |
301 |
60 |
74 |
10 |
11 |
71 |
23 |
9.97 |
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Sweden |
3 |
248 |
59 |
72 |
10 |
12 |
82 |
23 |
8.47 |
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UK |
3 |
126 |
60 |
78 |
12 |
15 |
84 |
30 |
10.32 |
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Turkey |
3 |
309 |
52 |
85 |
7 |
11 |
69 |
18 |
6.80 |
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Serbia |
1 |
100 |
59 |
88 |
8 |
10 |
71 |
23 |
9.00 |
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USA |
3 |
294 |
57 |
72 |
14 |
9 |
70 |
24 |
11.56 |
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Argentina |
2 |
246 |
51 |
90 |
9 |
10 |
90 |
26 |
3.66 |
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Total |
48 |
4,363 |
57 ± 1 |
78 |
10 ± 4 |
11 ± 9 |
73.7 |
24.3 |
9.31 |
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aIncludes nodules, pulmonal fibrosis, pericarditis, vasculitis, Felty syndrome, and scleritis. bMyocardial infarction, angina, coronary heart disease, coronary bypass surgery, or stroke. QUEST-RA, Questionnaires in Standard Monitoring of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis; RF, rheumatoid factor. |
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Naranjo et al. Arthritis Research & Therapy 2008 10:R30 doi:10.1186/ar2383 |
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