Abstracts tagged "axial spondyloarthritis and outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 2579 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
How Should We Calculate the ASDAS If the Conventional C-Reactive Protein Is below the Limit of Detection? – an Analysis in the DESIR Cohort
Pedro Machado^1,2, Victoria Navarro-Compán^1,3, Robert Landewé^4,5, Floris van Gaalen¹, Christian Roux⁶ and Desirée van der Heijde¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²University College London, London, United Kingdom, ³University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen, Netherlands, ⁶Paris Descartes University, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) is a composite measure of disease activity in axial spondyloarthritis. It was suggested that when the conventional …