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

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 ...

Objective: To identify patterns of self-reported health problems relating to dose and duration of glucocorticoid intake in unselected patients with rheumatoid arthritis from routine practice. Methods: ...

Background: Central Sensitization (CS) is a proposed physiological phenomenon in which dysregulation in the central nervous system causes neuronal dysregulation and hyperexcitability, resulting in ...

Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) immunopathogenesis revolves around the presentation of poorly characterised self-peptides by human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-class II molecules on the surface of ...

Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios T Boumpas, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective To examine associations of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (aCCP) antibody and rheumatoid factor (RF) concentrations with future disease activity in men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

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 ...

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 ...

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