Figure 4From: The need for prognosticators in rheumatoid arthritis. Biological and clinical markers: where are we now?Time course of disease activity in patients attaining particular disease activity states after 1 year of therapy. Patients who achieved low disease activity or remission at 1 year attained a low disease activity state within 3 to 6 months from the onset of treatment. SDAI, Simplified Disease Activity Index. Reproduced with permission from [87].Back to article page