Objectives To investigate the role of mechanical stress in cartilage ageing and identify the mechanistic association during osteoarthritis (OA) progression. Methods F-box and WD repeat domain ...

Objectives To develop EULAR recommendations for screening and prophylaxis of chronic and opportunistic infections in patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD). Methods An ...

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis and one in which pathogenesis and risk factors are best understood. One of the treatment objectives in current guidelines is ‘cure’. However, audits show ...

Objective To compare the relative bioavailability, safety and tolerability of oral methotrexate (MTX) and subcutaneous (SC) MTX administered via an auto-injector (MTXAI) in patients with rheumatoid ...

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can cause fibroinflammatory lesions in nearly any organ. Correlation among clinical, serological, radiological and pathological data is required for diagnosis. This work ...

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib, a Janus kinase inhibitor, in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with an inadequate response (IR) to biological ...

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of an oral selective tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor, deucravacitinib, in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods In this double-blind, ...

Background: The novel therapeutic principle of complement C5 inhibition by avacopan was approved for the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), in particular for granulomatosis with ...

Background Chronic pain affects 30% of all patients in developed countries, accounting for up to 35% of prescriptions in acute care settings. Non-opioid pain medications are widely utilized for ...

Background An increased risk of malignancy was reported in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) [1-3]. Objectives To estimate the prevalence of cancer in a Portuguese cohort of patients ...

Background: Sarcopenia refers to decrease in skeletal mass plus low muscle strength and/or low physical performance. Sarcopenia increases risk of falls, fractures, low bone mineral density, ...

Objectives Stratification approaches are vital to address clinical heterogeneity in Sjogren’s syndrome (SS). We previously described that the Newcastle Sjogren’s Stratification Tool (NSST) identified ...