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... A 62-year-old male with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who was taking nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drug for controlling synovitis developed a flare of his arthritis, hepatitis, and pneumoni[r] ... See full document

... Chrysiasis is an uncommon permanent blue-gray discoloration occurring on the sun-exposed skin of the patients who have been exposed to gold salts. Light exposure and total amount of go[r] ... See full document

... Punch biopsy was obtained and the biopsy specimen showed light microscopic and ultrastructural characteristics of gold deposition.[r] ... See full document

... Punch biopsy was obtained and the biopsy specimen showed light microscopic and ultrastructural characteristics of gold deposition.[r] ... See full document

... joints in August 1994. Under the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), she was treated with a non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drug (NSAID) and low doses of pre- dnisolone with ... See full document

... diagnosed with RA (ICD-9-CM ...excluded. A control cohort of 37,737 subjects who had not been diagnosed with RA from year 2000 through 2010, were selected to match each RA patient for gender ... See full document

... encrypts patient personal information to protect privacy and provides researchers with anonymous identification numbers associated with relevant claim information, including patients’ sex, dates of ... See full document

... datasets in this ...programme in March 1995, and Taiwan’s NHI programme, a single-payer system with the govern- ment as the sole insurer, provides universal coverage, comprehensive benefits ... See full document

... reimbursement. In 2010, there were 23 million people, equaled to ...enrolled in the NHI program ...included in the NHRID. The NHIRD also established a “registry for catastrophic illnesses ... See full document

... Methods: Patient selection The study subjects included 192 RA patients and 192 healthy subjects, recruited from China Medical University Hospital in ...Patients with RA according to the revised ... See full document

... MI in different ...as a function of baseline patient ...covariates in this multinomial logistic regression model included all the background characteristics listed in Table 1 including ... See full document

... was a composite endpoint, defined as any occurrence of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction and repeat ...when a patient experienced more than one ... See full document

... S A AN ND D M ME ET TH HO OD DS S Patients Thirty patients with rheumatic disease, who visited the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at China Medical College Hospital, were ...had a ... See full document

... death in RA patients on autopsy, we would not consider it for the clinical evaluation of ...both. In addition, respiratory failure is a syndrome with several kinds of mechanism such as low ... See full document

... Despite these strengths, the study has some limitations. The study data were retrieved from the NHIRD and lacked information on critical cardiovascular risk factors such as daily activities, obesity, and smoking and ... See full document

... comprehensive information on insured subjects, such as demographic data, dates of clinical visits, diagnostic codes, details of prescriptions, and expenditure amounts, as detailed described in our previous ... See full document

... gender, disease duration, average dosage of corticosteroids or DMARDs after the index date, and coexisting comorbidities, based on modified Cox proportional hazards model in the presence of competing risk ... See full document

... protein, rheumatoid factor, antin- uclear antibody, anticardiolipin antibodies, immunoglobu- lins G, A and M, and markers for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C and B, were all negative or within ... See full document

... worldwide with epilepsy. 14–16 Both RA and epilepsy have been associated with an increased risk of stroke, ischemic heart disease, and ...of a direct association between RA and epilepsy ... See full document

... catastrophic disease registration, and therefore may be of ...patients with chronic HCV infection in this study ...rate in patients with chronic ... See full document