Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory condition affecting elderly people and involving the girdles. [1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR ...

Our results support the hypothesis that a low initial dose of prednisone is sufficient to control PMR in the majority of patients. They also suggest that 0.20 mg per kg weight could be the ...

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Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...

The primary outcome of the study was the attainment of low disease activity at week 12, defined as a C-reactive protein (CRP) polymyalgia rheumatica activity score (PMR-AS) of 10 or less without oral ...