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 ...
Objectives Fatigue is a frequent symptom in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and has high impact on quality of life. We explored associations between disease activity and fatigue in patients with early RA ...
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 ...
1 University of Toronto, Toronto Western Research Institute, Psoriatic Arthritis Program, University Health Network, Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, ...
Objective Increasing evidence suggests that impaired cartilage is a substantial risk factor for the progression from hyperuricaemia to gout. Since the relationship between cartilage matrix protein and ...
Aims Treating to low disease activity is routine in rheumatoid arthritis, but no comparable goal has been defined for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to define and validate a Lupus Low ...
7 CIRI/Rheumatology & Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP), Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune-Mediated Disease (CIMD), Goethe University, Frankfurt, ...
Objective To perform a comprehensive analysis on predictors of achieving disease activity outcomes by change, response and state measures. Methods We used data from three rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ...
Objects Although the association of cigarette smoking (CS) with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been established, the impact of CS on anticitrullinated cyclic peptide/protein antibody ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterised by persistent joint inflammation and concomitant joint destruction, and in severe cases with extra-articular manifestations, multiple joint involvement, and ...
Correspondence to Dr Keishi Fujio, Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; fujiok-int{at}h.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Dr Yukiko Iwasaki, Department of Palliative ...