For more than three decades, low-dose methotrexate (MTX) has been the first-line treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Even after the introduction of biologics/biosimilars and janus ...

Background Upadacitinib is a Janus kinase inhibitor under evaluation for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We evaluated upadacitinib in patients with PsA and prior inadequate response or ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate secular trends in the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Japan. METHODS The incidence and prevalence of RA were determined in a longitudinal population ...

The aim was to update the 2009 European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), with attention to new therapeutic questions. Update of the ...

Correspondence to Simon Rothwell, Centre for Genetics and Genomics, Arthritis Research UK, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; s.rothwell{at}manchester.ac.uk Objectives Idiopathic ...

Objective In 2011, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and EULAR endorsed provisional criteria for remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), both Boolean-based and index-based. Based on recent ...

Correspondence to Dr Antonis Fanouriakis, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens 12462, Greece; afanour{at}med.uoa.gr Our objective was to update the EULAR ...

Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios T Boumpas, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National ...

1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...

Objective: To examine the subjective health in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) compared with the general population, and to explore the associations between health status and age, sex of the ...

Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to: Professor F Y Liew Division of Immunology, Infection and ...

1 Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Hospital Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico 2 Internal Medicine Department, Centro Médico Nacional Instituto ...