1 Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, United States of America 2 Ocean Medical Center, Brick, United States of America Background: Sleep deprivation and sleep inconsistency have been associated with ...
Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to J-Y Wang, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan ...
Objectives To determine the clinical profile of Filipino SLE patients as determined using the 2012 Systemic Lupus Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) criteria. Methods We checked which among the SLICC ...
Dr P van Lent, Department of Rheumatology, UMC Nijmegen, Building 850, Geert Grooteplein 26–28, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; P.vanlent{at}reuma.umcn.nl Objective: To study the active involvement of ...
Correspondence to Professor Margreet Kloppenburg, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; g.kloppenburg{at}lumc.nl Objective Hand osteoarthritis ...
A clinical guideline is a document with the aim of guiding decisions based on evidence regarding diagnosis, management and treatment in specific areas of healthcare. Specific to rheumatic and ...
1 Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland, OH, United States of America 2 Clinical Communications and Patient Advocacy, Editas Medicine, Medical Affairs, ...
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and progressive autoinflammatory disorder characterized by the infiltration of inflammatory cells, including B-cells, T-cells and macrophages, in the ...
Background In addition to joint damage, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) confers a higher risk of several comorbidities, including changes in body composition with reduced muscle mass and strenght ...
Background We no longer consider Osteoarthritis (OA) as a degenerative disease, but rather as a multifactorial disorder in which low grade, chronic inflammation has a central role. In addition, ...
Objectives The study (206347) compared organ damage progression in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who received belimumab in the BLISS long-term extension (LTE) study with propensity ...
Correspondence to Dr. Nunzio Bottini, Dept. of Medicine, University of California San Diego, MC0656, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; nbottini{at}ucsd.edu; Professor Costantino Pitzalis, William Harvey ...