Does psychological stress in patients with clinically suspect arthralgia associate with subclinical inflammation and progression to inflammatory arthritis?

Arthritis Res Ther · 2018 · PMC5934795 · PMID 29724244

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.066so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Total MRI-detected joint inflammation -scores increased between presentation with CSA and arthritis-onset, though this did not reach statistical significance (mean score 7.1 and 8.5 respectively, p = 0.066).

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