Arthritis Research & Therapy

Table 7 Baseline anthropometrics as predictors of JSN progression over 5 years in women, stratified by age

From: Predictors of radiographic erosion and joint space narrowing progression in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: a cohort study

	> 51 years				≤ 51 years
	Crude		Adjusted^a		Crude		Adjusted^a
	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI
BMI (per SD)^b	− 0.07	− 0.15, 0.01	− 0.06	− 0.14, 0.02	0.06	− 0.05, 0.16	− 0.04	− 0.16, 0.08
Normal BMI (reference)^c
Obese^c	− 0.34	− 0.62, − 0.06	− 0.24	− 0.50, 0.02	0.14	− 0.24, 0.51	− 0.22	− 0.66, 0.23
Obese or overweight^c	− 0.27	− 0.44, − 0.09	− 0.21	− 0.38, − 0.04	0.13	− 0.16, 0.43	− 0.04	− 0.36, 0.27
Overweight^c	− 0.26	− 0.44, − 0.07	− 0.20	− 0.38, − 0.03	0.13	− 0.24, 0.50	0.01	− 0.36, 0.38

Numbers in bold indicate significance of p ≤ 0.05
CI confidence interval, BMI body mass index, SD standard deviation, RF rheumatoid factor, JSN joint space narrowing
^aAdjusted for RF, age and baseline JSN score
^bSD: BMI (> 51 years) 3.7 kg/m²; BMI (≤ 51 years) 4.9 kg/m²
^cFor definitions see Table 1

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