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Parity influences the severity of ACPA-negative early rheumatoid arthritis: a cohort study based on the Swedish EIRA material

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Title
Parity influences the severity of ACPA-negative early rheumatoid arthritis: a cohort study based on the Swedish EIRA material
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Arthritis Research & Therapy, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13075-015-0869-x
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Mitra Pikwer, Cecilia Orellana, Henrik Källberg, Andreas Pikwer, Carl Turesson, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Camilla Bengtsson

Abstract

In women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) it has been observed that during pregnancy a majority of patients experience amelioration, but after delivery a relapse of the disease is common. However, there are few studies, with diverging results, addressing the effect of parity on the severity of RA over time. Our aim was to explore the impact of parity, with stratification for anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) status as well as for onset during reproductive age or not. Female RA cases aged 18-70 years were recruited for the Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis (EIRA). Information on disease severity (the health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) and the disease activity score 28 (DAS28)) was retrieved from the Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register at inclusion and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after diagnosis. Mixed models were used to compare mean DAS28 and HAQ scores over time in parous and nulliparous women. Mean differences at individual follow-up visits were compared using analysis of covariance. The odds of having DAS28 or HAQ above the median in parous verus nulliparous women were estimated in logistic regression models. A total of 1237 female cases (mean age 51 years, 65 % ACPA-positive) were included. ACPA-negative parous women, aged 18-44 years, had on average 1.17 units higher DAS28 (p < 0.001) and 0.43 units higher HAQ score (p < 0.001) compared to nulliparous women during the follow-up time, adjusted for age. In this subgroup, the average DAS28 and HAQ scores were significantly higher in parous women at all follow-up time points. Younger parous ACPA-negative women were significantly more likely to have DAS28 and HAQ values above the median compared to nulliparous women at all follow-up visits. No association between parity and severity of ACPA-positive disease was observed. Parity was a predictor of a more severe RA among ACPA-negative younger women, which might indicate that immunomodulatory changes during and after pregnancy affect RA severity, in particular for the ACPA-negative RA phenotype.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 5%
Colombia 1 5%
Sweden 1 5%
Canada 1 5%
Unknown 18 82%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 23%
Other 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 5 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 9%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 7 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 25 December 2015.
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#1,883,290
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Outputs from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#290
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Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#10
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