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 ...

Background Malnutrition and inflammation are closely related in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI) is a tool assessing the risk of malnutrition-related ...

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 ...

2 Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, Sunnybrook & Women’s Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) began about four decades ago with the discovery of HLA-DRB1. Since the beginning of this century, a number of non-HLA risk loci have been identified ...

Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...

1 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Medicine, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America 2 The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States ...

Objective Autoantibodies against antigens carrying distinct post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as citrulline, homocitrulline or acetyllysine, are hallmarks of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The ...

Objectives Eosinophils possess pro-inflammatory functions in asthma. However, our recent studies have suggested that innate lymphoid cells type 2 (ILC2s) and eosinophils have proresolving properties ...

Background The MANKIN score is the most widely used histology evaluation on osteoarthritis (OA). It has been modified in number of studies by different research groups since it was first published 40 ...