title: [Significance of osteoporosis and the functional state of the joints in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis].
abstract: The author distinguished significant factors characterizing the state of aged patients on the basis of the complete mathematical analysis of clinical and clinico-laboratory symptoms in 376 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A diagram of interrelationship between these factors has been drawn up; the author also determined the role of osteoporosis in the assessment of a number of clinical symptoms, in particular, intensity of pain, and constraint in the morning and outlined the ways of improving medical aid to patients of old age.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Venchikova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: O znachenii osteoporoza i funktsiona'lnogo sostoianiia sustavov pri revmatoidnom artrite u pozhilykh.