Objectives Cardiopulmonary involvement (CPI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). The 6 min walk test (6MWT) is widely used to assess functional capacity, but its ...

Objective To identify the best evidence on the efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions in reducing fatigue in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) and to ...

Objective To examine whether obesity and/or overweight are independently associated with an increased risk of remission failure in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), treated with ...

Objectives Superb microvascular imaging (SMI) provides a more sensitive assessment of small vessels compared with power and colour Doppler ultrasonography (PDUS and CDUS). We aimed to investigate the ...

Objectives The impact of body mass index (BMI) on cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is unclear. RA characteristics may influence the association between BMI and risk. Disease activity, ...

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are a group of severe autoimmune diseases, sharing some similarities, whose cause is unknown and treatment is empirical. While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most ...

Objectives Interstitial lung disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA-ILD) is linked to high mortality. Currently, effective screening tools are lacking. We assessed the role of symptoms and ...

Objective Assess long-term safety, tolerability and efficacy of bimekizumab in ankylosing spondylitis (radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA)).Methods Patients with active r-axSpA completing ...

Correction: comparison of active tuberculosis occurrence associated with janus kinase inhibitors and biological DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis ...

Background Janus kinase inhibitors are an effective option for achieving sustained remission or low disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) following inadequate response to ...

Objective To assess the presence of mental health disorders in persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and ...

Objectives To identify multimorbidity trajectories over 20 years among incident osteoarthritis (OA) individuals and OA-free matched references.Methods Cohort study using prospectively collected ...