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ArticleScientific reports2016

Relationship between handedness and joint involvement in rheumatoid arthritis.

Ai Yaku, Motomu Hashimoto, Moritoshi Furu, Hiromu Ito, Noriyuki Yamakawa, Wataru Yamamoto, Takao Fujii, Fumihiko Matsuda, Tsuneyo Mimori, Chikashi Terao

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ai YakuDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Motomu HashimotoDepartment of the Control for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Moritoshi FuruDepartment of the Control for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Hiromu ItoDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Noriyuki YamakawaDepartment of Rheumatology, Kyoto-Katsura Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Wataru YamamotoDepartment of Health Information Management, Kurashiki Sweet Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan.
Takao FujiiDepartment of the Control for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Fumihiko MatsudaCenter for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Tsuneyo MimoriDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Chikashi TeraoCenter for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Kyoto University · JPBrigham and Women's Hospital · USKurashiki Central Hospital · JPKyoto Katsura Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by autoimmune chronic joint inflammation, which is worsened by mechanical stress. It is still inconclusive whether joints on the right side or the dominant side get more damaged in RA since the limited number of patients analyzed in the previous study had made it difficult to separately analyze right-handed and left-handed patients. Here, we enrolled 334 RA patients, the biggest number of patients in studies to address this issue and separately analyzed right-handed and left-handed patients. As a result, we observed that joints on the dominant side got clinically and radiologically more involved in the right-handed patients (p ≤ 0.0030). Importantly, this tendency was also seen in the left-handed patients, while it was not statistically significant due to the small sample size. This tendency was observed in each component of clinical or radiological involvement. Thus, handedness influences the laterality of clinical and radiological joint involvement in RA.

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AgedArthritis, RheumatoidBlood SedimentationC-Reactive ProteinFemaleFunctional LateralityHumansJointsMaleMiddle AgedStress, MechanicalC-Reactive Protein

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