Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...

Objectives To report the level and trends of prevalence, incidence and years lived with disability (YLDs) for osteoarthritis (OA) in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017 by age, sex and ...

562 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TG6 2S2 Whiplash associated disorders have become an international medicolegal and social dilemma. Physicians are ...

Objectives The RITUXVAS trial reported similar remission induction rates and safety between rituximab and cyclophosphamide based regimens for antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated ...

Objective To assess to what extent time-dependent biases (ie, immortal time bias (ITB) and time-lag bias (TLB)) occur in the latest rheumatology observational studies, describe their main mechanisms ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, Bayamón, Puerto Rico Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, ...

Objectives Dietary fibre reduces body weight and inflammation both of which are linked with knee osteoarthritis (OA). We examined the association between fibre intake and risk of knee OA. Methods We ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether continued methotrexate treatment increases the risk of postoperative infections or of surgical complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within one year ...

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the commonest autoimmune diseases. It affects about 1% of the population worldwide (1). The prevalence of RA varies widely between different countries (2 ...

Objective To determine trends in survival among adult and paediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) from 1950 to the present. Methods We performed a systematic literature review to ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, University College London Hospitals, Arthur Stanley House, 40-50 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4NJ, UK 2 Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals ...

Correspondence to Gustav L Jakobsson, Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg S-41346, Sweden; ...