A cross-sectional study of pain sensitivity, disease-activity assessment, mental health, and fibromyalgia status in rheumatoid arthritis

INTRODUCTION: Pain remains the most important problem for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Active inflammatory disease contributes to pain, but pain due to non-inflammatory mechanisms can confound the assessment of disease activity. We hypothesize that augmented pain processing, fibromyalgic f...

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Main Authors: Joharatnam, Nalinie, McWilliams, Daniel F., Wilson, Deborah, Wheeler, Maggie, Pande, Ira, Walsh, David A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2015
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44094/
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