Background: Early therapeutic interventions in inflammatory rheumatic diseases have proven successful in inducing drug-free remission. However, such studies are difficult to conduct in axial ...
3 The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, NanNing, China 4 The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, NanNing, China 5 The First Affiliated Hospital of ...
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex inflammatory disease that modifies body composition. Using the dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in RA patients could be a method for body ...
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) ...
Background: Imbalance between pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines is an important feature in the pathogenesis of juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (JSLE). Janus kinases (JAKs) play an important ...
Several epidemiological and experimental data support the hypothesis that diabetes could be an independent risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA), at least in some patients, leading to the concept of a ...
Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany Dr M Both, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Department of Diagnostic ...
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Objectives Cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus (NL) have been associated with significant morbidity and mortality; however, there is minimal information on long-term outcomes of affected ...
Correspondence to Martin Aringer, Medicine III, University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden D-01307, Germany; martin.aringer{at}uniklinikum-dresden.de; Dr ...
Correspondence to Dr Michael H Pillinger, Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Michael.Pillinger{at}nyulangone.org The search for effective COVID-19 ...
Osteoarthritis is a debilitating disease that affects cartilage and bone in joints. Cartilage injuries, if left untreated, are one of the leading risk factors for developing osteoarthritis. Thus, ...