Browsing by Subject "Rheumatoid arthritis"
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Antirheumatic medicine prescribing patterns and direct medicine costs in the South African private health sector
(Elsevier, 2018)Objectives To describe antirheumatic medicine prescribing patterns and to estimate the total annual direct medicine cost of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the private health sector of South Africa. Methods A retrospective, ... -
Chronic disease list conditions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the private healthcare sector of South Africa
(Springer, 2018)Introduction Little is known about the burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in South Africa. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of RA and coexisting chronic disease list (CDL) conditions in the private ... -
Percutaneous delivery of thalidomide and its N-alkyl analogues for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1998)Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease associated with high levels of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a) in synovial fluid and synovial tissue (Saxne et al., 1989). Thalidomide is a proven ... -
Prescribing patterns of biologic immunomodulating medicine in the South African private health care sector
(North-West University, 2010)Advances in molecular immunology and rapid technical evolution during the past two decades have led to a new class of medicines called biologics. Recently, a large number of biologics, or biologic immunomodulators, directed ...