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We sought to study associations of fatigue with clinical features, disease activity, and synovial histology.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Patients meeting the American College of Rheumatology\/EULAR 1987 and\/or 2010 RA criteria were recruited before elective total joint replacement. Demographics, RA characteristics, tender and swollen joints, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C\u2010reactive protein, and patient\u2010reported fatigue, categorized as mild, moderate, or severe, were collected. Hematoxylin and eosin stains of sectioned synovium were systematically scored by a pathologist. Relationships between fatigue and studied variables were evaluated with Kendall's tau. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) was used to illustrate associations of exposures, outcome variables, mediators, and confounders. 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