7 Genetics and Population Health Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brsibane, Queensland, Australia 8 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, ...

Objective To estimate the global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study and to explore how the burden of hip and knee OA compares with other ...

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

Objectives To compare the use of glucocorticoids (GC) over time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were or were not treated initially with GC bridging therapy. Methods Data from the BeSt, ...

Objectives Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common class of childhood rheumatic diseases, with distinct disease subsets that may have diverging pathophysiological origins. Both adaptive ...

2 Department of Rheumatology, University of Sydney Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia 3 Department of Rheumatology, Royal ...

Background Vitamin D is important for bone, cartilage and muscle function but there are few studies on its association with joint pain. Objective To investigate whether serum vitamin D predicts change ...

Background Telitacicept (TACI-Fc fusion protein) is a novel BLyS (B-lymphocyte stimulator)/APRIL (a proliferation-inducing ligand) dual inhibitor, which has been approved in 2021 in China for the ...

Correspondence to Dr Johannes Nowatzky, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, NYU Langone Behçet's Disease Program, NYU Ocular Rheumatology Program, New York University Grossman School of ...

1 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing, China 2 Pingxiang People’s Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Pingxiang ...

Objectives Myositis is a heterogeneous family of diseases including dermatomyositis (DM), immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), antisynthetase syndrome (AS) and inclusion body myositis (IBM).

a Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands, b Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ...