Integrating Rehabilitation Services into Routine Care of Rheumatoid Arthritis May Reduce the Inflammatory Response: A Hospital-Based Follow-Up Study in Taiwan
Hui-Ju Huang, Wei-Jen Chen, Hanoch Livneh, Hua-Lung Huang, Ming-Chi Lu, Tzung-Yi Tsai, Diana Mieliauskaitė · 2024
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Rheumatoid arthritis harms more than joints, since long-term inflammation can quietly damage other organs. Hui-Ju Huang and co-authors ask whether adding rehab care to routine care calms that inflammation. Their 2024 study follows patients at a hospital in Taiwan, using records from 2012 to 2017.
The records held 4,505 people with the illness, aged twenty to seventy. Of them, 1,387 used rehab care at least six times in their first year after onset. The team tracked two blood markers of inflammation, one a protein and one a settling rate, before and after that care. Models that allow for repeated measures weigh whether marker levels fell more in the rehab group. The work tests a low-risk add-on that clinics could offer more widely.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hui-Ju Huang, Wei-Jen Chen, Hanoch Livneh, Hua-Lung Huang, Ming-Chi Lu, Tzung-Yi Tsai, Diana Mieliauskaitė |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |