Comparison of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index and a modified version of the index in assessing disease activity in patients with ankylosing spondylitis without peripheral manifestations

OBJECTIVE: To compare the original Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) with a modified BASDAI without questions about peripheral arthritis (question 3) and enthesitis (question 4), here termed the mini-BASDAI, as an instrument to assess disease activity in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) without peripheral manifestations.

METHODS: The mini-BASDAI was calculated by omitting questions 3 and 4. The correlation of the original BASDAI and the mini-BASDAI with patient global and other disease parameters was assessed in a total of 692 patients from three AS cohorts including one observational AS cohort and two clinical trial populations treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors. Sensitivity to change was assessed by calculating effect sizes.

RESULTS: Up to 70% of AS patients did not have peripheral involvement. Patients with peripheral involvement had higher disease activity in all activity parameters. The mini-BASDAI had higher values compared with the original BASDAI, also in the subgroup with peripheral manifestations. However, the mini-BASDAI did not correlate better with other markers of disease activity compared with the original BASDAI. Furthermore, effect sizes of the original BASDAI and mini-BASDAI were comparable in the treatment trials. Interestingly, approximately 5% of active AS patients with pure axial disease manifestation were identified whose disease activity was underestimated by the original BASDAI.

CONCLUSION: On a group level using the mini-BASDAI did not result in an advantage to assess disease activity or in the subgroup without peripheral involvement. In only approximately 5% of AS patients was the mini-BASDAI superior to the original BASDAI.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:68

Enthalten in:

Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 68(2009), 11 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1701-7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Song, I H [VerfasserIn]
Rudwaleit, M [VerfasserIn]
Listing, J [VerfasserIn]
Sieper, J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Antirheumatic Agents
Comparative Study
Evaluation Study
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 17.11.2009

Date Revised 10.12.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/ard.2008.099226

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM184681197