Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Disease activity and low physical activity associate with number of hospital admissions and length of hospitalisation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. | Metsios et al. Arthritis Research Therapy 2011 13 R108 http content 13 3 R108 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Disease activity and low physical activity associate with number of hospital admissions and length of hospitalisation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 24 1 2 George S Metsios 1 Antonios Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou 1 Gareth J Treharne Alan M Nevill Aamer Sandoo 2 2 Vasileios F Panoulas Tracey E Toms Yiannis Koutedakis and George D Kitas Abstract Introduction Substantial effort has been devoted for devising effective and safe interventions to reduce preventable hospital admissions in chronic disease patients. In rheumatoid arthritis RA identifying risk factors for admission has important health policy implications but knowledge of which factors cause or prevent hospital admissions is currently lacking. We hypothesised that disease activity severity and physical activity are major predictors for the need of hospitalisation in patients with RA. Methods A total of 244 RA patients were assessed for physical activity International Physical Activity Questionnaire RA activity C-reactive protein CRP disease activity score DAS28 and disability Health Assessment Questionnaire HAQ . The number of hospital admissions and length of hospitalisation within a year from baseline assessment were collected prospectively. Results Disease activity and disability as well as levels of overall and vigorous physical activity levels correlated significantly with both the number of admissions and length of hospitalisation P regression analyses revealed that only disease activity DAS28 and physical activity were significant independent predictors of numbers of hospital admissions DAS28 exp B P and physical activity exp B P and length of hospitalisation DAS28 exp B P and physical activity exp B P . Sub-analysis of the data demonstrated that only 19 n 49 of patients engaged in recommended .
