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Defining conditions where long-term glucocorticoid treatment has an acceptably low level of harm to facilitate implementation of existing recommendations: viewpoints from an ...

3 Amsterdam Rheumatology& Immunology Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 Medical Humanities, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
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EULAR recommendations for terminology and research in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis: report from the Study Group for Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis

1 Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Rheumatology Research Group, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, ...
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EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI): development of a consensus patient index for primary Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives To develop a score for assessment of patients' symptoms in primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS): the EULAR SS Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI). Methods Dryness, pain, somatic and mental fatigue ...
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Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, myositis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma share activation of a common type I interferon pathway

Objective To characterise activation of the type I interferon (IFN) pathway in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ...
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Guidelines for musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology

aDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, bDepartment of Rheumatology and Physical Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, ...
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EULAR definition of arthralgia suspicious for progression to rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...
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Psoriasis: epidemiology, clinical features, and quality of life

Psoriasis is a common chronic, recurrent, immune mediated disease of the skin and joints. It can have a significant negative impact on the physical, emotional, and, psychosocial wellbeing of affected ...
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Increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide population-based study

1 School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Division of Rheumatology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 3 College of Medicine, Taipei Medical ...
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Quadriceps weakness in knee osteoarthritis: the effect on pain and disability

a Rheumatology Unit, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, b Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham Dr O’Reilly. OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the ...
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Low disease activity (DAS28≤3.2) reduces the risk of first cardiovascular event in rheumatoid arthritis: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis in a large cohort study

Correspondence to Elke EA Arts, Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein 8, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; elkearts{at}gmail.com, elkearts{at}hotmail.com ...
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Mass spectrometry-based identification of new anti-Ly and known antisynthetase autoantibodies

Objectives To discover new and detect known antisynthetase autoantibodies (ASAs) through protein immunoprecipitation combined with gel-free liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (IP-MS).
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Exercise therapy may postpone total hip replacement surgery in patients with hip osteoarthritis: a long-term follow-up of a randomised trial

Background Exercise treatment is recommended for all patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA), but its effect on the long-term need for total hip replacement (THR) is unknown. Methods We conducted a long ...