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Sex and anticitrullinated protein antibodies modify the relationship between inflammation and cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis

Objectives Female sex and anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are associated with higher disease activity in ...
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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): where we are now and where to go next

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a well-recognised entity characterised by calcifications and ossifications of the entheses affecting mainly the spine and peripheral sites. DISH is ...
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Impact of clinical domains other than arthritis on composite outcomes in psoriatic arthritis: comparison of treatment effects in the SEAM-PsA trial

Objective We used the Study of Etanercept And Methotrexate in Combination or as Monotherapy in Subjects with Psoriatic Arthritis (SEAM-PsA) data set to examine the impact of presence of enthesitis, ...
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Do high rheumatoid factor levels impact response to certolizumab pegol in patients with inadequately controlled rheumatoid arthritis? A post hoc analysis of the phase IIIb ...

Objectives To assess the impact of rheumatoid factor (RF) levels and previous inadequate responses/intolerance to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi-IR) on the efficacy of certolizumab pegol (CZP ...
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Transition phase towards psoriatic arthritis: clinical and ultrasonographic characterisation of psoriatic arthralgia

Objective Non-specific musculoskeletal pain is common in subjects destined to develop psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We evaluated psoriatic patients with arthralgia (PsOAr) compared with psoriasis alone ...
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Patterns of spinal new bone formation in patients with axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls: a low-dose CT study

Objective This study (the SpACT study) aimed to investigate the frequency and localisations of different types of spinal new bone formation (NBF) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), ...
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Defining criteria for disease activity states in juvenile dermatomyositis based on the Juvenile Dermatomyositis Activity Index

Objectives To develop and validate the cut-offs in the Juvenile DermatoMyositis Activity Index (JDMAI) to distinguish the states of inactive disease (ID), low disease activity (LDA), moderate disease ...
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Strengths and limitations of the EULAR definition for difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis

The management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has significantly improved, but a substantial number of patients still experience persistent disease activity, leading to the concept of ‘difficult-to-treat ...
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RA-risk synovium exhibits DNA damage coupled with impaired DNA repair in fibroblasts

Objectives Understanding the molecular changes in the preclinical synovium is crucial for identifying factors that drive arthritis development. Persistent DNA damage in tissues is known to drive a ...
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Which arthralgia patients benefit most in reduction of subclinical joint inflammation by methotrexate treatment: results from the TREAT EARLIER trial

Objectives The TREAT EARLIER trial showed in clinically suspect arthralgia (CSA) that methotrexate induced reductions in subclinical inflammation and related disease burden during the year of ...
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Safety of mycophenolate mofetil in systemic lupus erythematosus maintenance therapy: insights from the LUNA registry in a nationwide prospective cohort study

Objective We aimed to compare the incidence of severe infections between mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and other immunosuppressants in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) on maintenance ...
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Characteristics, treatments and outcomes of patients with dermatomyositis using real-world data

Objective Studies of dermatomyositis (DM) are frequently limited to single-centre cohorts. We used two large nationally representative US cohorts to conduct a descriptive epidemiological study of the ...