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Fish oil in recent onset rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind controlled trial within algorithm-based drug use

Background The effects of fish oil (FO) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have not been examined in the context of contemporary treatment of early RA. This study examined the effects of high versus low ...
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Psoriatic arthritis: epidemiology, clinical features, course, and outcome

1 University of Toronto, Toronto Western Research Institute, Psoriatic Arthritis Program, University Health Network, Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, ...
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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 definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis

Background Despite treatment according to the current management recommendations, a significant proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remain symptomatic. These patients can be ...
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Improved detection of erosions in the sacroiliac joints on MRI with volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE): results from the SIMACT study

Correspondence to Dr Kay-Geert A Hermann, Department of Radiology (CCM), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, 10117, Germany; kgh{at}charite.de Objective To compare the performance of a new ...
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Inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic description of the extent and frequency of acute spinal changes using magnetic resonance imaging

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used to detect inflammation in the spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Objectives: To detect differentially the presence ...
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2022 American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

6 Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 7 Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Objective To develop and validate revised ...
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Do patients with axial spondyloarthritis with radiographic sacroiliitis fulfil both the modified New York criteria and the ASAS axial spondyloarthritis criteria? Results from ...

Correspondence to Anne Boel, Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZA, The Netherlands; a.h.e.m.boel{at}lumc.nl Background Patients with spondyloarthritis with radiographic ...
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Risk of serious infections in tocilizumab versus other biologic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multidatabase cohort study

Objective To investigate the rate of serious bacterial, viral or opportunistic infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) starting tocilizumab (TCZ) versus tumour necrosis factor inhibitors ...
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Urinary tract infections and lupus erythematosus

Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Service of Internal Medicine, “Virgen de las Nieves” University Hospital, Granada, Spain Correspondence to: Dr C Hidalgo-Tenorio 9th floor, Hospital Universitario ...
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Comparative risk of serious infections among real-world users of biologics for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis

Correspondence to Dr G Caleb Alexander, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; galexan9{at}jhmi.edu Objective To examine whether initiation ...
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Pneumonia vaccination timing in relation to starting conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of infections, and pneumococcal vaccination is recommended. With some evidence that pneumococcal vaccinations are not as effective when ...