Objective A panel of antibodies against three antigens, University Hasselt (UH)-rheumatoid arthritis (RA).305, 318 and 329, has been associated with lack of response to first-line therapy in the Care ...

Neuropathic pain is a devastating type of pain that significantly reduces the quality of life of affected people.

Objective To assess the impact of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) and fibre on health-related quality of life (QOL), morning stiffness and pain in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Methods A ...

Background Remission and low-disease activity are recommended targets in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet many ...

Objective Autoimmune rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), have recently been associated with an increased risk of cancer, particularly head and neck cancer (HNC). This study aimed ...

Objective To assess structural changes at peripheral entheses and the association with spinal bone formation in patients with long-standing radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA) overall and ...

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a clinically heterogeneous autoimmune disease with multifactorial pathogenesis. Although polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been developed to enable ...

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Objectives Current therapeutic paradigms for treatment-refractory rheumatic diseases rely on chronic immunosuppression with variable efficacy and potential for cumulative toxicity. We systematically ...

Objective To evaluate the long-term efficacy of interleukin (IL)-17A inhibition with secukinumab on structural bone changes and clinical outcomes in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods We conducted a ...

Objective To develop and validate a predictive model for distinguishing controls (Ctr), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) based on nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) ...

Background Psoriatic disease has a complex effect on bone metabolism, resulting in both pathological bone formation and bone resorption. However, microstructural changes in cortical and trabecular ...