Quality of Sleep in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2010-12-01
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Summary
As one of the characteristic clinical features of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the
unique character of the patients, somewhat difficult to be persuaded but theoretical, has
long been pointed out. The investigators hypothesized that this unique character might be due
to the sleep disturbance in the patients possibly due to severe pain of arthritis or unique
biochemical disease activities. The investigators test (1) the sleep quality of the patients
and draw some characteristic features, and (2) investigated the connection between unique
biochemical changes such as the increase of c-fos or wee-1.