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

Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), along with glucocorticoid use, is associated with cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular safety of glucocorticoids in RA is controversial and may be related to ...

Aims Treating to low disease activity is routine in rheumatoid arthritis, but no comparable goal has been defined for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to define and validate a Lupus Low ...

Objective Autoantibodies against antigens carrying distinct post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as citrulline, homocitrulline or acetyllysine, are hallmarks of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The ...

1 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Medicine, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America 2 The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States ...

Correspondence to Fenne Wouters, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; f.wouters{at}lumc.nl Objectives The human leukocyte antigen-shared ...

Objectives Eosinophils possess pro-inflammatory functions in asthma. However, our recent studies have suggested that innate lymphoid cells type 2 (ILC2s) and eosinophils have proresolving properties ...

Objective The goal of these studies is to discover novel urinary biomarkers of lupus nephritis (LN). Methods Urine from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients was interrogated for 1000 proteins ...

Correspondence to Dr Yukinori Okada, Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 565-0871, Japan; yokada{at}sg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Objective Alteration of the ...

Clinical heterogeneity, unpredictable course and flares are characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE is—by and large—a systemic disease, occasionally it can be ...

Objectives To assess the sensitivity to change of ultrasound halo features and their association with disease activity and glucocorticoid (GC) treatment in patients with newly diagnosed giant cell ...

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 ...