Objective There is inconsistent evidence about the association between inflammatory disorders and depression and anxiety onset in a primary care context. The study aimed to evaluate the risk of ...

3 Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Medical Informatics, Erlangen, Germany 4 Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Experimental and Clinical ...

Background: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), previously referred to as Churg-Strauss syndrome, is a rare, systemic necrotising vasculitis associated with blood and tissue ...

Background IgG autoantibodies mediate autoimmune pathology in a number of autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, myasthenia gravis, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, autoimmune skin ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK; p.hsieh.1{at}research.gla.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Dr Chuan-ju Liu, Rm 1608, HJD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Medical Center, 301 East 17th Street, New York NY10003, USA; chuanju.liu{at}nyumc.org Objective ...

For more than three decades, low-dose methotrexate (MTX) has been the first-line treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Even after the introduction of biologics/biosimilars and janus ...

Correspondence to Dr L H Glimcher, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, FXB 205, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ...

Background Osteoarthritis is the most common degenerative bone and joint disease. Hypothesis has been widely accepted that osteoarthritis (OA) starts from cartilage injury and loss, while emerging ...

2 Mohammed V University Rabat, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat, Morocco 3 Mohammed V University Rabat, Military ...

Background: Rowell syndrome is a rather rare and highly debated entity, initially defined by Rowell et all as discoid lupus associated with erythema multiforme-like (EM) lesions, positive speckled ANA ...