Objective Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is a chronic exocrine disorder typified by inflammation and dryness, but also profound fatigue, suggesting a pathological basis in cellular bioenergetics. In healthy ...

Objective The rheumatoid arthritis impact of disease (RAID) questionnaire comprises seven patient-important domains of disease impact (pain, function, fatigue, sleep disturbance, emotional well-being, ...

Background We aimed to update the 2018 systematic literature review on the efficacy and safety of treatments for hand osteoarthritis (OA), which was based on 126 studies. Methods We performed a ...

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate potential for automating clinical tasks in rheumatology.1 While initial applications show promise in disease activity scoring and computer-assisted diagnosis, ...

Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has improved substantially during the last decades, mainly due to the development and introduction in everyday practice of new, highly efficacious, ...

The International Myositis Classification Criteria Project consortium, the Euromyositis register and the Juvenile Dermatomyositis Cohort Biomarker Study and Repository (JDRG) (UK and Ireland).

Objectives To better define the spectrum of new-onset post-COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 vaccine inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) from a large multicentric observational study. Methods Consecutive ...

Objective This study explored the dynamic functional connective (DFC) alterations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and investigated the correlation between the neuropsychiatric symptoms, ...

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Objective Cellular ageing of the immune system has been suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis ...

Objectives To identify factors associated with the effectiveness and safety of Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as reflected by treatment retention. Methods ...

Objective Paradoxical arthritis under tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNF-i) for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been described. This study aims to evaluate the histological features of paired ...