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Immunogenicity and safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in adult patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases and in the general population: a multicentre study

Introduction Vaccination represents a cornerstone in mastering the COVID-19 pandemic. Data on immunogenicity and safety of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines in patients with autoimmune inflammatory ...
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Single-cell transcriptome analysis profiles cellular and molecular alterations in submandibular gland and blood in IgG4-related disease

2 Tianjin Clinical Research Center for Rheumatic and Immune Diseases, Tianjin, China Correspondence to Dr Wei Wei, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Tianjin Medical University General ...
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Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced inflammatory arthritis persists after immunotherapy cessation

Correspondence to Dr Laura C Cappelli, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; lcappel1{at}jhmi.edu Objective We sought to investigate the long-term outcomes of ...
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EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
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What is the evidence for the presence of a therapeutic window of opportunity in rheumatoid arthritis? A systematic literature review

1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Walaeus Library, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Department of Clinical ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism: a nationwide cohort study

Correspondence to Dr Chia-Hung Kao, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Science, College of Medicine, China Medical University, No. 2, Yuh-Der Road, Taichung 40447, Taiwan; d10040{at}mail.cmuh.org ...
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Low disease activity (DAS28≤3.2) reduces the risk of first cardiovascular event in rheumatoid arthritis: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis in a large cohort study

Correspondence to Elke EA Arts, Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein 8, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; elkearts{at}gmail.com, elkearts{at}hotmail.com ...
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A novel evidence-based detection of undiagnosed spondyloarthritis in patients presenting with acute anterior uveitis: the DUET (Dublin Uveitis Evaluation Tool)

2 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital Dublin and Rheumatology Research Group, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent's University ...
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Influence of active versus placebo control on treatment responses in randomised controlled trials in rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Professor Daniel Aletaha, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Wien 1090, Austria; daniel.aletaha{at}meduniwien.ac.at Objectives To investigate whether treatment ...
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Assessing the performance of AI chatbots in answering patients’ common questions about low back pain

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and readability of the answers generated by large language model (LLM)-chatbots to common patient questions about low back pain (LBP).
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Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial

Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...
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Physician global assessment in systemic lupus erythematosus: can we rely on its reliability?

We read with great interest the recent paper by Aranow et al 1 about the impact of laboratory results on scoring of the Physician Global Assessment (PGA) of disease activity in systemic lupus ...