title: [Studies on mobility and prognosis in spondylitis ankylosans].
abstract: 278 patients with ankylosing spondylitis have been studied in order to find a basis for prognosis by setting a mobility function index of the vertebral column. This index does not depend on manifestation age or on the blood sedimentation rate. It increases with progression of x-ray findings. A coincidence of impaired mobility and overweight is relatively frequent and function index and electrophoresis are correlated. In contrary to this study a study of the course gives probably more prognostic indications.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000510:Alpha-Globulins / Q000032:analysis; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009068:Movement; D011379:Prognosis; D011859:Radiography; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors; D005719:gamma-Globulins / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000510:Alpha-Globulins; D005719:gamma-Globulins
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen zur Bewegungsfunktion und Prognose bei Spondylitis ankylosans