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See Latest ArticlesDoes the weather really matter? A cohort study of influences of weather and solar conditions on daily variations of joint pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Arthritis Care and Research , 09/03/09
Smedslund G et al. – Pain was significantly associated with 3 or more weather variables in 1 out of 6 patients.
Methods- Prospective cohort study on 36 patients with stable RA
- Daily reports of pain in the am on a VAS for 84 consecutive days were correlated with records of atmospheric and solar variables for the same days
- Pain was significantly associated with 3 or more external variables in 6 (17%) of the patients, with 1 or 2 external variables in 16 (44%) of the patients, and no associations were observed in 14 (39%) of the patients
- The patients differed in the variables they responded to and in which direction, except for consistent negative associations between pain and ultraviolet light dose, and between pain and solar radio flux/sunspot count
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