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Aesthetic discomfort in hand osteoarthritis: results from the LIège Hand Osteoarthritis Cohort (LIHOC)

Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, November 2015
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Title
Aesthetic discomfort in hand osteoarthritis: results from the LIège Hand Osteoarthritis Cohort (LIHOC)
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Arthritis Research & Therapy, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13075-015-0807-y
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Audrey Neuprez, Olivier Bruyère, Emmanuel Maheu, Nadia Dardenne, Nansa Burlet, Pieter D’Hooghe, Stéphan Distèche, Jean-Yves Reginster

Abstract

The primary complaint of patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA) is frequently the inelegant appearance of their hands. Only one study has been conducted to assess the magnitude of and identify the determinants of aesthetic discomfort in hand OA. The LIège Hand Osteoarthritis Cohort is a prospective cohort of 203 patients diagnosed with hand OA. At baseline, these patients rated their aesthetic discomfort on a 100-mm visual analogue scale (VAS) and used a Likert scale (range 0-7) to quantify the magnitude of their aesthetic damage. The median value of the aesthetic discomfort VAS was 35.0 [interquartile range (Q1-Q3) 6.0-59.0]. The median damage was rated 3.0 (Q1-Q3 1.0-4.0), corresponding to a moderate level. Both were significantly (p < 0.02) associated with the female gender, the duration of hand OA, the radiological severity of OA (Verbruggen-Veys and Kellgren-Lawrence scales) and pain, disability, or stiffness [Australian Canadian Osteoarthritis Hand Index (AUSCAN) and Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis ]. After a stepwise analysis, the parameters correlated to the aesthetic discomfort were the presence of erosive joints (p = 0.0048), the AUSCAN score (p < 0.0001), the number of joints with severe radiological damage (p = 0.023), and gender (p = 0.0009). For aesthetic damage, the parameters associated were AUSCAN score (p < 0.0001), duration of hand OA >10 years (p = 0.001), and presence of erosive joints (p < 0.0001). Compared with patients with low aesthetic discomfort (VAS ≤33 mm), those with the highest discomfort (VAS ≥66 mm) had more erosive OA (p = 0.014), a higher Verbruggen and Veys score (p = 0.0039), and a higher AUSCAN score (p < 0.001). Aesthetic discomfort and damage are significant complaints in patients with hand OA. The determinants of the magnitude of these are gender, radiological severity, duration of hand OA, presence of erosive joints, and impact on pain, function, and stiffness as assessed with the AUSCAN.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 5%
Unknown 21 95%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 23%
Other 3 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 8 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 9%
Sports and Recreations 2 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 9 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2015.
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#2,695,916
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