Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) compared to the general population ...

The cellular composition and underlying spatiotemporal transformation processes of subchondral bone in osteoarthritis (OA) remain unknown. Herein, various cell subsets from tibial plateau of patients ...

Objectives The Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat or Allopurinol in Patients with Gout (CARES) trial suggested a higher risk of cardiovascular (CV) death from febuxostat than from allopurinol.

Objective To determine whether exposure to cardiovascular medications and statins is associated with increased risk of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Design The population-based case–control study ...

Objective To determine the contribution of clinical and biochemical inflammation to structural progression of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).Methods We analysed patients from the Infliximab ...

Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Sjögren’s disease (SjD) are two rheumatic autoimmune diseases that commonly co-occur. Besides some overlap in clinical presentation, the two diseases share the ...

Reactive arthritis (ReA) is typically preceded by sexually transmitted disease or gastrointestinal infection. An association has also been reported with bacterial and viral respiratory infections.

Objective To investigate serum protein expression in participants with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and changes after guselkumab treatment.Methods Participants with PsA were treated with guselkumab or ...

Methods The cohort was derived from the Survey of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis from 53 centres/19 countries/3 continents during 2014–2019. We evaluated the ...

Objectives To investigate the complex relationship between inflammation, mechanical stress and radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), using job type as a proxy for ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenic connective tissue disease with a broad spectrum of clinical and laboratory manifestations. Due to this heterogeneity, SLE remains challenging to ...

Objective To describe and analyse the initial symptoms attributable to patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) and their association with HLA-B27 status.Methods This was an observational, ...