Patients with early inflammatory arthritis based their decisions to apply for disability pensions more on mental conditions than disease activity, according to research presented at the annual congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Madrid.
Researchers in Germany studied 573 employed patients (aged 63 years or younger; 67% women) with early inflammatory arthritis (IA; disease duration, 13 ± 7 weeks) and their plan to begin early retirement within the first 12 months of rheumatologic care.
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