1 Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...

1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Boston, United States of America 2 Boston University School of Public Health, Biostatistics & Epidemiology Data ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the potential relation between cumulative exposure to cigarette smoking in patients with or without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a positive family history of the disease.

Objective: To carry out a critical appraisal of the literature in an attempt to assess the current value of synovial fluid (SF) analysis in the diagnosis of joint disease. Methods: A literature search ...

3 Clinic of Rehabilitation, Oslo University Hospital – Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway 4 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Oslo University Hospital – Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway 5 ...

Objective: To determine whether bone attrition (flattening or depression of the subchondral bone) was associated with the presence and severity of knee pain and to evaluate the coexistence of ...

Objectives To examine trends in the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from 2005 to 2014 overall and by serological status as compared with 1995–2004 and 1985–1994. Methods We evaluated RA ...

Objective: To create minimal disease activity (MDA) criteria for psoriatic arthritis (PsA). With recent therapeutic advances, this is now a goal for treatment and may represent a measure to compare ...

Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Dr A I Catrina, Rheumatology ...

Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal Disease, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Objective: Primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) causes significant systemic symptoms including fatigue as well as glandular ...

Background Since the publication of the EULAR recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) in 2016, several randomised clinical trials ...

Objective To assess the incidence and risk factors of cardiovascular events in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods A cohort analysis was conducted involving patients recruited and ...