Objective Current methods used for forecasting workforce requirements in rheumatology are disparate, as are the parameters incorporated into workforce projection studies. The objective of these ...

Objectives To determine whether antecedent sinusitis is associated with incident rheumatic disease. Methods This population-based case–control study included all individuals meeting classification ...

Objective To report the efficacy, patient-reported, radiographic and safety outcomes of 4 years’ certolizumab pegol (CZP) treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods RAPID-PsA ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Objectives Although current ...

Objective Environmental air pollution has been associated with disruption of the immune system at a molecular level. The primary aim of the present study was to describe the association between ...

Objectives Most studies on difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (D2T RA) have focused on established RA. Here, we analyse whether disease activity in the early stages of RA could influence ...

Objectives Efficacy and safety of tofacitinib, an oral Janus kinase inhibitor, were evaluated in a 6-month, double-blind, phase 3 study in Chinese patients with active (polyarthritic) psoriatic ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) associated arthritis is a subgroup of spondyloarthritis (SpA) that has suffered from lack of recognition in rheumatology clinical and research circles for over 100 ...

Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy profiles of ozoralizumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the OHZORA, NATSUZORA and HOSHIZORA trials. Methods ...

Objective To evaluate the relevance of salivary gland ultrasound (SGUS) and its place in the diagnostic algorithm in patients referred with dry syndrome (DS) for a suspicion of Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) ...

Objective To develop a model that assesses the risk for progressive disease in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) over the short term, in order to guide clinical management. Methods Baseline ...

Decreased mineral density is one of the major complications of anorexia nervosa. The phenomenon is even more pronounced when the disease occurs during adolescence and when the duration of amenorrhoea ...