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Disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis and associations to markers of vascular pathology and traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors: a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: To compare the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and population controls, and to examine …
Inger Jorid Berg, Désirée van der Heijde, Hanne Dagfinrud, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Inge Christoffer Olsen, Tore K. Kvien, Anne Grete Semb, Sella A. Provan
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Disease activity and left ventricular structure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
OBJECTIVE: Increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness/internal diameter ratio (relative wall thickness) was recently reported in RA …
Helga Midtbø, Eva Gerdts, Tore K. Kvien, Inge C. Olsen, Asle Hirth, Einar Skulstad Davidsen, Anne Grete Semb
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Circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines and cytokine receptors in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a cross-sectional comparative study
OBJECTIVES: Insight into the most important inflammatory pathways in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) could be of importance in risk …
S. H. Sveaas, I. J. Berg, S. A. Provan, A. G. Semb, I. C. Olsen, T. Ueland, P. Aukrust, N. Vøllestad, K. B. Hagen, T. K. Kvien, H. Dagfinrud
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Health status has improved more in women than in men with rheumatoid arthritis from 1994 to 2009: results from the Oslo rheumatoid arthritis register
OBJECTIVE: To examine changes in patient reported outcome measures (PROs) over 15 years in a representative population of patients with …
C. Austad, T. K. Kvien, I. C. Olsen, T. Uhlig
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Uveitis is associated with hypertension and atherosclerosis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVES: Uveitis is the most common extra-articular manifestation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), but the literature …
Inger Jorid Berg, Anne Grete Semb, Désirée van der Heijde, Tore K. Kvien, Jonny Hisdal, Inge C. Olsen, Hanne Dagfinrud, Sella A. Provan
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Determining a magnetic resonance imaging inflammatory activity acceptable state without subsequent radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis: results from a followup MRI study of 254 patients in clinical remission or low disease activity
OBJECTIVE: To assess the predictive value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-detected subclinical inflammation for subsequent …
Frédérique Gandjbakhch, Espen A. Haavardsholm, Philip G. Conaghan, Bo Ejbjerg, Violaine Foltz, Andrew K. Brown, Uffe Møller Døhn, Marissa Lassere, Jane E. Freeston, Inge Christoffer Olsen, Pernille Bøyesen, Paul Bird, Bruno Fautrel, Merete Lund Hetland, Paul Emery, Pierre Bourgeois, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, Tore K. Kvien, Fiona M. McQueen, Mikkel Østergaard
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Efficacy of high intensity exercise on disease activity and cardiovascular risk in active axial spondyloarthritis: a randomized controlled pilot study
BACKGROUND: Physical therapy is recommended for the management of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and flexibility exercises have …
Silje Halvorsen Sveaas, Inger Jorid Berg, Sella Aarrestad Provan, Anne Grete Semb, Kåre Birger Hagen, Nina Vøllestad, Camilla Fongen, Inge C. Olsen, Annika Michelsen, Thor Ueland, Pål Aukrust, Tore K. Kvien, Hanne Dagfinrud
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Carotid plaque characteristics and disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis
OBJECTIVE: Carotid plaques (CP) are predictive of acute coronary syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggesting that …
Anne G. Semb, Silvia Rollefstad, Sella A. Provan, Tore K. Kvien, Einar Stranden, Inge C. Olsen, Jonny Hisdal
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NORdic trial of oral Methylprednisolone as add-on therapy to Interferon beta-1a for treatment of relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis (NORMIMS study): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis with interferon beta is only partly effective, and new more effective …
Per Soelberg Sorensen, Svein Ivar Mellgren, Anders Svenningsson, Irina Elovaara, Jette Lautrup Frederiksen, Antonie Giaever Beiske, Kjell-Morten Myhr, Lise Vejby Søgaard, Inge Christoffer Olsen, Magnhild Sandberg-Wollheim
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