Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), along with glucocorticoid use, is associated with cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular safety of glucocorticoids in RA is controversial and may be related to ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Yukinori Okada, Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 565-0871, Japan; yokada{at}sg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Objective Alteration of the ...

Objective The goal of these studies is to discover novel urinary biomarkers of lupus nephritis (LN). Methods Urine from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients was interrogated for 1000 proteins ...

Clinical heterogeneity, unpredictable course and flares are characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE is—by and large—a systemic disease, occasionally it can be ...

Objectives Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterised by systemic inflammation involving various immune cell types. Monocytes, pivotal in promoting and regulating inflammation in SLE, ...

Objective Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common type of arthritis among children, but a few studies have investigated the contribution of rare variants to JIA. In this study, we aimed ...

Objectives Our aim was to compare patterns of musculoskeletal-related healthcare utilisation between male and female patients before and after the diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis (IA). Methods We ...

Objectives Emerging evidence suggests that the microbiome plays an important role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). We aimed to test the two-hit model of OA pathogenesis and potentiation in ...

3 Ghent University, Dept. of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Ghent, Belgium 4 Ghent University Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology, Ghent, Belgium 5 Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, Molecular ...

2 Montefiore Medical Center: Einstein Campus, Division of Rheumatology, Bronx, United States of America Background It is known that Hepatitis C (HCV) can cause many extrahepatic manifestations which ...

1 Wonkwang University Medical School, Internal Medicine, Iksan, Korea, Rep. of (South Korea) 2 Jeonbuk National University Medical School, Internal Medicine, Jeonju, Korea, Rep. of (South Korea) ...