Correspondence to Dr John H Stone, Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; jhstone{at}mgh.harvard.edu IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can cause ...

Correspondence to Professor Alicja Wolk, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden; Alicja.Wolk{at}ki.se ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 2 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The ...

1 Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07101, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell ...

The primary therapeutic target for rheumatoid arthritis is remission, assessed using validated composited measures.1 Currently, index-based remission frequently used in clinical practice are disease ...

Spinal injuries and symptoms were studied in 109 ex-military parachutists and 112 sport (free fall) parachutists by means of postal questionnaires. 46 ex-military parachutists aged 50 years or over ...

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 ...

Objective We evaluated the discriminant capacity of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) in post-hoc analysis of data from the BLISS-52 and BLISS-76 trials of belimumab in systemic lupus ...

Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Immunogenomics and Inflammation Research Unit, Hopital Edouard Herriot, University of Lyon, Lyon, France Correspondence to Professor Pierre Miossec, ...

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-system autoimmune disease characterized by aberrant expansion of B cells. The B cell-stimulating molecules, B cell activating factor/a ...

1 Department of Health Promotion and Education, Maastricht University, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Garcia de ...

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