Objective The objective of this study is to assess the association between childhood exposure to pets and farm animals and ...

Objective We explored associations between endogenous oestrogens, coronary atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We interrogated whether these relationships varied by ...

Background Pain and fatigue are among the most debilitating symptoms of systemic sclerosis (SSc), severely impairing quality of life (QoL). Pharmacological management is often inadequate, and evidence ...

Background This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of avacopan versus a prednisone taper in the subgroup of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (granulomatosis ...

Background About 20% of female patients with anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) experience obstetric complications despite standard treatment with aspirin and heparin. Treatment with hydroxychloroquine ...

Objectives This 1-year long-term extension (LTE) study (NCT04451772) followed the 48-week phase 2 SLEek study (NCT03978520) that evaluated upadacitinib (a Janus kinase inhibitor) alone or combined ...

Objectives This analysis aimed to evaluate the effect of depressive symptoms on treatment outcomes in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), focusing on low disease activity (LDA) and inactive ...

Objectives (1) To develop a composite score, the DEUS (Defining Enthesitis on Ultrasound in Spondyloarthritis) Enthesitis Index (DEI), which integrates ultrasound and clinical examination findings for ...

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) poses a significant global health challenge. This study examined trends in the incidence, prevalence and mortality of RA from 1990 to 2021 at global, regional and ...

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are a group of severe autoimmune diseases, sharing some similarities, whose cause is unknown and treatment is empirical. While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most ...

Introduction The EULAR points to consider (PtC) for reducing non-adherence need implementation. Objectives To design, implement and evaluate a strategy based on the PtC to improve treatment adherence ...

Objectives The Gout, Hyperuricaemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (G-CAN) has developed a calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) nomenclature project. This systematic literature review ...