Objectives Cardiopulmonary involvement (CPI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). The 6 min walk test (6MWT) is widely used to assess functional capacity, but its ...

Objectives To determine the proportion of patients with psoriatic arthritis in the Adalimumab Effectiveness in Psoriatic Arthritis trial achieving minimal disease activity (MDA) and its individual ...

Jih- Jin Tsai, Li-Teh Liu, Chun-Hong Chen, et al. COVID-19 outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs. RMD Open 2023;9:e003038.

What is already known about this subject? Active discopathy is a specific entity that associates clinical, biological and MRI signs of activity with degenerative disc disease.

Background Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous genetic loci associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). However, the functional impact of these ...

Safety profile of upadacitinib over 15 000 patient-years across rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and atopic dermatitis ...

Objective To investigate the presence and bioactivity of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in synovial fluid (SF) of osteoarthritis (OA) patients and elucidate mechanisms modulating their inflammatory ...

Background Environmental factors play a prominent role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) aetiology . Shift work has previously been associated with increased RA risk in females. The aim of this study was ...

Objective This post hoc analysis of the FINCH 1–3 ( NCT02889796, NCT02873936 and NCT02886728) studies assessed specific effects of filgotinib on pain control and their relationship with other aspects ...

Objectives To explore physicians’ and nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and experiences of shared decision making (SDM) in rheumatology, to identify barriers and facilitators to SDM, and to examine whether ...

What does this study add? Our findings show that changes in brain structures are involved in the pathogenesis of cognitive dysfunction in SLE. White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are common in ...

Objectives We evaluated the feasibility of a rapid glucocorticoid tapering regimen to reduce glucocorticoid exposure in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) treated with glucocorticoids ...