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[Gout and hyperuricaemia--should both be treated?]Till Uhlig
Nasjonalt revmatologisk rehabiliterings og kompetansesenter, Revmatologisk avdeling, Diakonhjemmet sykehus, 0319 Oslo
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 123:2878-80. 2003..As prophylactic long-term treatment of recurring attacks, allopurinol, probenicide and colchicine are therapeutic alternatives. There is still no consensus on the treatment of individuals with asymptomatic hyperuricaemia...- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of comprehensive rehabilitation programsTill Uhlig
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Curr Opin Rheumatol 15:134-40. 2003..Preferably the overall performance of comprehensive rehabilitation programs, not the individual components, should be evaluated... 
Is rheumatoid arthritis disappearing?T Uhlig
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 64:7-10. 2005..Besides a real time dependent decline of RA incidence, changing methodology in classification may be an equally important explanation. Today we may assume that annually 25-50 people from a population of 100,000 will develop typical RA...- Quantification of reduced health-related quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared to the general populationTill Uhlig
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
J Rheumatol 34:1241-7. 2007..To compare levels of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to those of the general population... - Comparison of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) and the modified HAQ (MHAQ) in patients with rheumatoid arthritisT Uhlig
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23 Vinderen, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Rheumatology (Oxford) 45:454-8. 2006..We compared the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) with the modified HAQ (MHAQ) in a cohort of RA patients across various levels of disability, and examined correlations with other measures of physical function... - Reliability of the ICF Core Set for rheumatoid arthritisTill Uhlig
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Postboks 23 Vinderen, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 66:1078-84. 2007..The comprehensive ICF Core Set for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a selection of 96 categories from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), representing relevant aspects in the functioning of RA patients... - Data driven attempt to create a clinical algorithm for identification of women with rheumatoid arthritis at high risk of osteoporosisT K Kvien
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 59:805-11. 2000.... - Hand cortical bone mass and its associations with radiographic joint damage and fractures in 50-70 year old female patients with rheumatoid arthritis: cross sectional Oslo-Truro-Amsterdam (OSTRA) collaborative studyG Haugeberg
Department of Rheumatology, Sørlandet Hospital, N 4604 Kristiansand S, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 63:1331-4. 2004..To investigate the relationship between hand bone mineral density (BMD) and radiographic joint damage, and between hand BMD and fractures in 50-70 year old women with longstanding RA... - Comparison of ultrasound and X-ray absorptiometry bone measurements in a case control study of female rheumatoid arthritis patients and randomly selected subjects in the populationG Haugeberg
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Osteoporos Int 14:312-9. 2003..Further studies are needed to examine if QUS may reflect other aspects than bone mass and be a potential better predictor for fracture risk in RA and corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis... - Self reported non-vertebral fractures in rheumatoid arthritis and population based controls: incidence and relationship with bone mineral density and clinical variablesR E Ørstavik
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 63:177-82. 2004.... - Quantitative ultrasound and bone mineral density: discriminatory ability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and controls with and without vertebral deformitiesR E Ørstavik
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 63:945-51. 2004..Less is known about osteoporosis caused by inflammatory diseases or corticosteroid use... - Work disability in rheumatoid arthritis is predicted by physical and psychological health status: a 7-year study from the Oslo RA registerS Odegard
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Scand J Rheumatol 34:441-7. 2005..To explore the prevalence of work disability (WD) and to identify bio-psychological factors that predicts future WD in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over a 7-year period... 
Calprotectin (a major S100 leucocyte protein) predicts 10-year radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritisH Berner Hammer
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23, Vinderen, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 69:150-4. 2010..High amounts of calprotectin are found in synovial fluid from patients with RA...- Rheumatoid arthritis is milder in the new millennium: health status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 1994-2004T Uhlig
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 67:1710-5. 2008..We examined whether there was a secular change towards less severe disease from 1994 to 2004 among patients within the representative setting of the Oslo Rheumatoid Arthritis Register (ORAR)... - The Oslo experience with arthritis registriesT K Kvien
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Clin Exp Rheumatol 21:S118-22. 2003..Our data also suggest that disease onset may be defined either as symptom onset or as when the classification criteria are fulfilled. The choice between these 2 options does not seem to influence the longitudinal results... - Test-retest reliability of disease activity core set measures and indices in rheumatoid arthritisT Uhlig
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 68:972-5. 2009..To examine the test-retest reliability of the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) core disease activity measures and derived composite indices... - A population study of factors associated with general practitioner consultation for non-inflammatory musculoskeletal painK B Hagen
Department of Population Health Sciences, National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 59:788-93. 2000.... - A comparison of agreement and sensitivity to change between AIMS2 and a short form of AIMS2 (AIMS2-SF) in more than 1,000 rheumatoid arthritis patientsE A Haavardsholm
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
J Rheumatol 27:2810-6. 2000.... - The responsiveness of health status measures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: comparison of disease-specific and generic instrumentsK B Hagen
Health Services Research Unit, National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
J Rheumatol 26:1474-80. 1999.... - Incidence of clinically important 10-year health status and disease activity levels in population-based cohorts with rheumatoid arthritisSigrid Odegard
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
J Rheumatol 35:54-60. 2008..To calculate the average age- and sex-specific annual incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) linked to clinically important levels of health status after 10 years, and to study time trends in 10-year disease status during a 6-year period... - Responsiveness of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for rheumatoid arthritisT Uhlig
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 68:879-84. 2009.... - Development of the rehabilitation patient experiences questionnaire: data quality, reliability and validity in patients with rheumatic diseasesMargreth Grotle
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
J Rehabil Med 41:576-81. 2009..To develop the Rehabilitation Patient Experiences Questionnaire for patients undergoing rehabilitation for rheumatological disorders... - Criteria for TNF-targeted therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: estimates of the number of patients potentially eligibleT K Kvien
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Drugs 61:1711-20. 2001..Further economic evaluations are needed to determine for which groups such treatment is warranted from a health economics perspective... - Performance of health status measures with a pen based personal digital assistantT K Kvien
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 64:1480-4. 2005..Electronic use of health status measures in the follow up of patients is a possible way to achieve this... - Does the content really matter? A study comparing structure, process, and outcome of team rehabilitation for patients with inflammatory arthritis in two different clinical settingsM Klokkerud
National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Scand J Rheumatol 41:20-8. 2012..To provide a thorough description of team rehabilitation care and compare the structure, process, and outcomes in two specialized arthritis rehabilitation settings... - Activity limitations and participation restrictions in women with hand osteoarthritis: patients' descriptions and associations between dimensions of functioningI Kjeken
Diakonhjemmet sykehus, Boks 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 64:1633-8. 2005.... - Effectiveness of switching between TNF inhibitors in ankylosing spondylitis: data from the NOR-DMARD registerE Lie
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 70:157-63. 2011..To assess the effectiveness of switching to a second tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS)... - Quality of life in rheumatoid arthritisT K Kvien
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Scand J Rheumatol 34:333-41. 2005..Electronic transferral of data from patients to the health professionals by, for example, internet or a personal digital assistant (PDA), opens up new opportunities for frequent patient reports and improved access to the data... - Concurrent evaluation of data quality, reliability and validity of the Australian/Canadian Osteoarthritis Hand Index and the Functional Index for Hand OsteoarthritisRikke H Moe
National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, and Institute of Nursing and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, PO Box 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway
Rheumatology (Oxford) 49:2327-36. 2010.... - [Specialized rehabilitation of patients with rheumatic disease]Till Uhlig
Nasjonalt revmatologisk rehabiliterings og kompetansesenter, Revmatologisk avdeling, Diakonhjemmet sykehus, Postboks 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 127:313-5. 2007..Documenting effects of rehabilitation interventions remains an important challenge; evaluation should include the whole rehabilitation concept... - There is inadequate evidence to determine the effectiveness of nonpharmacological and nonsurgical interventions for hand osteoarthritis: an overview of high-quality systematic reviewsRikke H Moe
National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, PO Box 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway
Phys Ther 89:1363-70. 2009..Patients with hand osteoarthritis are commonly treated by health care professionals (allied to medicine). Practice should be informed by updated evidence from systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials... - Rheumatology care: Involvement in medical decisions, received information, satisfaction with care, and unmet health care needs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitisIngvild Kjeken
National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Boks 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Rheum 55:394-401. 2006.... - Norwegian version of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure in patients with hand osteoarthritis: validity, responsiveness, and feasibilityIngvild Kjeken
Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Rheum 51:709-15. 2004..To test the Norwegian version of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) for validity, responsiveness, and feasibility in patients with hand osteoarthritis... - Reliability of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure in patients with ankylosing spondylitisIngvild Kjeken
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
J Rheumatol 32:1503-9. 2005..The main aim of our study was to examine the test-retest reliability of the Norwegian version of the COPM in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in 3 different retest modes of data collection... - Consequences of handling missing data for treatment response in osteoarthritis: a simulation studyI C Olsen
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 20:822-8. 2012..To understand how handling of missing data influences the statistical power and bias of treatment effects in randomised controlled trials of painful knee osteoarthritis (OA)... - Sicca symptoms and secondary Sjögren's syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus: comparison with rheumatoid arthritis and correlation with disease variablesI M Gilboe
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 60:1103-9. 2001..Sicca problems should be considered in the care of patients with SLE, especially those with anti-SSB and/or anti-SSA antibodies who have sicca symptoms and fatigue... - Prediction of radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis and the role of antibodies against mutated citrullinated vimentin: results from a 10-year prospective studyS W Syversen
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 69:345-51. 2010..The main objective of this study was to test the prognostic capacity of the recently developed test for anti-mutated citrullinated vimentin (anti-MCV)... - Exploring Tai Chi in rheumatoid arthritis: a quantitative and qualitative studyTill Uhlig
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 11:43. 2010..The purpose of this study was to study in which way Tai Chi group exercise impacted on disease activity, physical function, health status and experience in RA patients, applying quantitative and qualitative methods... - Daily health status registration (patient diary) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison between personal digital assistant and paper-pencil formatTurid Heiberg
Centre for Education and Skill Training, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Rheum 57:454-60. 2007..The objective of this study was to compare daily and weekly registrations of self-reported health status measures between personal digital assistant (PDA) and paper-pencil (PP) format regarding scores, variation, and feasibility... - Clinical decision rules in rheumatoid arthritis: do they identify patients at high risk for osteoporosis? Testing clinical criteria in a population based cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis recruited from the Oslo Rheumatoid Arthritis RegisterG Haugeberg
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 61:1085-9. 2002..The three item criteria have not been evaluated in male patients with RA or in the entire female RA population... - The population based studies in rheumatoid arthritis. A method of longterm followup studiesTore K Kvien
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
J Rheumatol Suppl 69:35-40. 2004..The ORAR has provided epidemiological data that is representative of the entire patient population in the county... - Calprotectin (a major leucocyte protein) is strongly and independently correlated with joint inflammation and damage in rheumatoid arthritisHilde Berner Hammer
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23, Vinderen, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 66:1093-7. 2007..The objective of the present study was to examine correlations between calprotectin and joint damage... - Why do patients with chronic musculoskeletal disorders consult their primary care physicians?Till Uhlig
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Curr Opin Rheumatol 14:104-8. 2002..A decision to consult a primary care physician for musculoskeletal disorders is not based simply on the presence or absence of physical symptoms, but also involves a complex mixture of social and psychological factors... - What's in team rehabilitation care after arthroplasty for osteoarthritis? Results from a multicenter, longitudinal study assessing structure, process, and outcomeMargreth Grotle
National Resource Center for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, PO Box 23, 0319 Oslo, Norway
Phys Ther 90:121-31. 2010..Clinical course and outcome connected to rehabilitation after hip or knee arthroplasty have been studied extensively, but few studies have assessed the content of team rehabilitation care for these patients... - Effectiveness and retention rates of methotrexate in psoriatic arthritis in comparison with methotrexate-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritisElisabeth Lie
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Vinderen, Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 69:671-6. 2010..To examine the effectiveness and 2-year retention rates of methotrexate (MTX) in MTX naïve patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA)... - Is rheumatoid arthritis really getting less severe?Till Uhlig
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Nat Rev Rheumatol 5:461-4. 2009..The focus needs to be kept on these issues to further improve disease severity in patients with RA... - Pattern of joint involvement and other disease characteristics in 634 patients with arthritis of less than 16 weeks' durationMaria Dahl Mjaavatten
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, 0319 Oslo, Norway
J Rheumatol 36:1401-6. 2009..To investigate the distribution of joint involvement in a cohort of patients with very recent onset arthritis and describe the disease characteristics in these patients... - Positive anti-citrullinated protein antibody status and small joint arthritis are consistent predictors of chronic disease in patients with very early arthritis: results from the NOR-VEAC cohortMaria D Mjaavatten
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, P O box 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R146. 2009..The objective of this study was to identify and compare predictors of three relevant outcomes of chronic arthritis in a cohort of very early arthritis patients... - Pain and psychological health status over a 10-year period in patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritisSigrid Odegard
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 66:1195-201. 2007..To examine rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with short disease duration over 10 years, and to identify factors that are associated with the course of pain, depression and anxiety... - Bone loss in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a population-based cohort of 366 patients followed up for two yearsGlenn Haugeberg
Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Rheum 46:1720-8. 2002..To evaluate the extent of and risk factors for bone loss in a population-based cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receiving conventional health care... - Vertebral deformities in 229 female patients with rheumatoid arthritis: associations with clinical variables and bone mineral densityRagnhild E Ørstavik
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Rheum 49:355-60. 2003.... - Incidence of vertebral deformities in 255 female rheumatoid arthritis patients measured by morphometric X-ray absorptiometryRagnhild E Orstavik
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23, Vinderen, 0319, Oslo, Norway
Osteoporos Int 16:35-42. 2005..It seems, however, that older patients with previous limb fractures and low BMD are especially prone to this complication... - Association of early radiographic damage with impaired physical function in rheumatoid arthritis: a ten-year, longitudinal observational study in 238 patientsSigrid Ødegård
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Arthritis Rheum 54:68-75. 2006..To investigate the longitudinal relationship between physical disability, disease activity, and radiographic damage over 10 years in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)... - Epidemiological aspects of rheumatoid arthritis: the sex ratioTore K Kvien
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Box 23 Vinderen, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1069:212-22. 2006..More research is needed to fully describe the differences between males and females regarding epidemiological data... - Vertebral deformities in rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with population-based controlsRagnhild E Ørstavik
Oslo City Department of Rheumatology, Oslo, Norway
Arch Intern Med 164:420-5. 2004.... - Radiographic damage associated with low bone mineral density and vertebral deformities in rheumatoid arthritis: the Oslo-Truro-Amsterdam (OSTRA) collaborative studyMariette C Lodder
Department of Rheumatology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arthritis Rheum 49:209-15. 2003..To examine variables associated with bone mineral density (BMD) and vertebral deformities in women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from 3 northwest European countries... - [Rheumatologic rehabilitation]Till Uhlig
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 123:1499. 2003 - [National registry for a new and costly treatment]Till Uhlig
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 128:1654. 2008 - Associations between the PTPN22 1858C->T polymorphism and radiographic joint destruction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 10-year longitudinal studyBenedicte A Lie
Institute of Immunology, Rikshospitalet Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, N 0027 Oslo, Norway
Ann Rheum Dis 66:1604-9. 2007..To investigate whether the PTPN22 1858T risk variant is associated with the rate of radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)... - Positive affect as a factor of resilience in the pain-negative affect relationship in patients with rheumatoid arthritisElin B Strand
Department of Behavioural Sciences and Statistics, Institute of Basic Medical Science, University of Oslo, POB 1111 Blindern, N 0317 Oslo, Norway
J Psychosom Res 60:477-84. 2006..The purpose of this study is to examine positive affect (PA) as a factor of resilience in the relationships between pain and negative affect (NA) in a sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis...