1 Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...

Objectives Lupus nephritis (LN) is a frequent complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Severe (proliferative) forms of LN are treated with induction immunosuppressive therapy (IST), ...

Objectives To examine trends in the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from 2005 to 2014 overall and by serological status as compared with 1995–2004 and 1985–1994. Methods We evaluated RA ...

4 University College London, Centre for Rheumatology and Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, London, United Kingdom 5 University of Leeds, NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching ...

Background Malnutrition and inflammation are closely related in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI) is a tool assessing the risk of malnutrition-related ...

1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Boston, United States of America 2 Boston University School of Public Health, Biostatistics & Epidemiology Data ...

Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...

Background The MANKIN score is the most widely used histology evaluation on osteoarthritis (OA). It has been modified in number of studies by different research groups since it was first published 40 ...

2 Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, Sunnybrook & Women’s Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster ...

Background: Central Sensitization (CS) is a proposed physiological phenomenon in which dysregulation in the central nervous system causes neuronal dysregulation and hyperexcitability, resulting in ...