Fig 1.
An example diagram for time course of morning stiffness in dominant hand.
(1) Severity of stiffness on awakening, (2) Severity of stiffness at the first 1/4 of total awake time, (3) Improvement of stiffness at the first 1/4 of total awake time, (4) Severity of stiffness at the first 1/2 of total awake time, (5) Improvement of stiffness at the first 1/2 of total awake time, (6) Severity of stiffness at bed time, (7) Improvement of stiffness at bed time.
Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics, current treatment, and disease activity.
Table 2.
Local clinical manifestations and ultrasound scores in dominant hand.
Fig 2.
Prevalence of power Doppler signals in each joint/tendon region.
Prevalence of each power Doppler (PD) grade > 0 in each joint (A) and each tendon region (B). IP, interphalangeal joint; PIP, proximal interphalangeal joint; MCP, metacarpo-phalangeal joint; FD, flexor digitorum; Wrist Ext, wrist extensor tendons.
Table 3.
Correlations between clinical manifestations and ultrasound scores in dominant hand.
Table 4.
Multivariate linear regression models to identify factors which independently associate with power Doppler scores.