A comparison of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across four systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs)
- Greenfield, Julia
- Hudson, Marie
- Vinet, Evelyne
- Fortin, Paul R.
- Bykerk, Vivian
- Pineau, Christian A.
- Wang, Mianbo
- Bernatsky, Sasha
- Baron, Murray
- Canadian Scleroderma Research Group and Canadian Inflammatory Myopathy Study Group
DOIAbstract
ObjectivesTo compare physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across four systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARD).MethodsIncident subjects enrolled in four SARD cohorts, namely systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) were studied. The outcomes of interest were baseline Short Form Health Survey physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) component summary scores. Multivariate analysis was conducted to determine whether PCS and MCS scores differed across SARD type.[...
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