BMJ4d
Treatment of early oligoarticular psoriatic arthritis with apremilast: primary outcomes at week 16 from the FOREMOST randomised controlled trial
Objectives Oligoarticular psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is frequent but rarely studied. The objective was to assess the efficacy of apremilast in early oligoarticular PsA. Methods FOREMOST (NCT03747939) ...
BMJ15d
Protein kinase R is highly expressed in dermatomyositis and promotes interferon-beta-induced muscle damage
Objectives Dermatomyositis (DM) has been consistently linked to the type I interferon (IFN-I) pathway. However, the precise pathogenesis remains incompletely elucidated. We aimed to explore potential ...
BMJ14d
Therapeutic interception in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis to prevent clinically impactful disease
Multiple clinical trials for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prevention have been completed. Here, we set out to report on the lessons learnt from these studies. Researchers who conducted RA prevention ...
BMJ3d
Definition and initial validation of a Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS)
Aims Treating to low disease activity is routine in rheumatoid arthritis, but no comparable goal has been defined for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to define and validate a Lupus Low ...
BMJ2d
mTOR inhibition by metformin impacts monosodium urate crystal–induced inflammation and cell death in gout: a prelude to a new add-on therapy?
Objective Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis worldwide, and patients experience a heavy burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The inflammation is caused by the deposition of ...
BMJ1d
Safety and efficacy of vaccination against hepatitis B in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Department of Rheumatology, Tel Aviv “Sourasky” Medical Centre and the “Sackler” Faculty of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv, Israel Correspondence to: Dr O Elkayam, Department of Rheumatology, Tel ...
BMJ5d
Ultrasensitive serum interferon-α quantification during SLE remission identifies patients at risk for relapse
1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...
BMJ6d
Is the epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis changing? Results from a population-based incidence study, 1985–2014
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 ...
BMJ3d
Gout: why is this curable disease so seldom cured?
3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...
BMJ2d
Standardisation of myositis-specific antibodies: where are we today?
With interest we read the recent article by Espinosa-Ortega et al 1 comparing a line immunoassay (LIA) and immunoprecipitation (IP) for the detection of autoantibodies associated with idiopathic ...
BMJ7d
Does paracetamol (acetaminophen) reduce the pain of osteoarthritis?: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
1 Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK 2 Rheumatology Unit, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK ...
BMJ10d
Extracting immunological and clinical heterogeneity across autoimmune rheumatic diseases by cohort-wide immunophenotyping
Correspondence to Prof. Yukinori Okada, Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University School of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan; yuki-okada{at}m.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Prof.