Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a condition characterised by calcification and ossification of ligaments and entheses. The condition usually affects the axial skeleton, in ...

Objective To describe the disease characteristics of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) included in an inception cohort, to analyse how many patients from each JIA category reach an ...

Objective To perform a systematic literature review (SLR) about the effect of non-pharmacological interventions delivered by non-physician health professionals to prevent and manage osteoporotic ...

Objectives The optimal duration of glucocorticoid (GC) treatment in lupus nephritis (LN) remains unclear. We examined predictors of GC tapering and discontinuation (D/C), flares during tapering and ...

Objective To examine the performance in adults of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)/Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS)-endorsed Ankara 2008 classification ...

Objectives Informing an international task force updating the consensus statement on efficacy and safety of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) selectively targeting interleukin ...

Objectives To identify multimorbidity trajectories over 20 years among incident osteoarthritis (OA) individuals and OA-free matched references. Methods Cohort study using prospectively collected ...

Background Despite many studies suggesting an association between serum IgG4 and IgG4-related diseases (IgG4-RD), the evidence of the utility of serum IgG4 titres in differentiating between IgG4-RD ...

Objective This study aimed to examine rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk associated with hormonal and reproductive factors in women from the large cohort of the UK Biobank. Methods Data on hormonal and ...

Objective To study the pathophysiological differences of EGPA and IgG 4-related disease (RD) by clarifying their clinical, pathological and immunological features. Methods Clinical and pathological ...

Objective To assess how achievement of increasingly stringent clinical response criteria and disease activity states at week 52 translate into changes in core domains in patients with non-radiographic ...

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, poly/dermatomyositis and systemic ...