The combination of Chinese and Western Medicine in the management of rheumatoid arthritis: a real-world cohort study across China

• Main Authors: Zhong, Linda Lidan, Wang, Rongsheng, Lam, Wai Ching, Zhu, Qi, Du, Peipei, Cao, Peihua, Jiang, Ting, Zhang, Yuanyuan, Shen, Jie, Su, Xiao, Xue, Luan, Mao, Jianchun, Fang, Yongfei, Gao, Mingli, Hu, Chunrong, Peng, Jiangyun, Gu, Ying, Wei, Qianghua, Huang, Runyue, Lyu, Aiping, Liu, Hongxia, He, Dongyi
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Cohort Study; Integrative Medicine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168573
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of Integrative medicine (IM), compare with Western medicine (WM), in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a cohort study. Methods: This is a cohort study with recruitment of RA patients from 10 hospitals in China. The primary outcome was change in dise...