Health Assessment Questionnaire at One Year Predicts All‐Cause Mortality in Patients With Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis & Rheumatology

Fecha de publicación: 6 de septiembre de 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/art.41513

Autores: Safoora Fatima, O. Schieir, M. F. Valois, S. J. Bartlett, L. Bessette, G. Boire, G. Hazlewood, C. Hitchon, E. C. Keystone, D. Tin, C. Thorne, V. P. Bykerk, J. E. Popethe

Background: Higher self‐reported disability (high Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ] score) has been associated with hospitalizations and mortality in established rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but associations in early RA are unknown.

Methods: Patients with early RA (symptom duration <1 year) enrolled in the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort who initiated disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs and had completed HAQ data at baseline and 1 year were included in the study. Discrete‐time proportional hazards models were used to estimate crude and multi‐adjusted associations of baseline HAQ and HAQ at 1 year with all‐cause mortality in each year of follow‐up.

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