2 Farhat Hached Hospital, Endocrinology and Diabetes Department, Sousse, Tunisia Background Hyperuricemia is reported to be a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes.

‘Poly-refractory’ disease affects 2.7% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have failed different groups of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b-DMARDS) and targeted synthetic ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Xiaoqing Peng, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; pengxiaoqing{at}ahmu.edu.cn We read with ...

Background Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionised the management of several cancers, enhancing the anti-tumoral immune response. However they are responsible for many Immune Related ...

33 Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Tbilisi Hospital #1 and Georgian Scientific-Practical Rheumatology Centre, Tblisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia 34 Dipartimento di ...

In this issue of the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, Tan et al 1 report the results of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (hrMRI) of interphalangeal joints of 20 subjects who had “clinically ...

7 Genetics and Population Health Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brsibane, Queensland, Australia 8 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, ...

Correspondence to Professor G J Macfarlane, Epidemiology Group, University of Aberdeen, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland AB25 2ZD ...

Objective: To develop evidence-based recommendations for the management of fibromyalgia syndrome. Methods: A multidisciplinary task force was formed representing 11 European countries. The design of ...

The objective was to develop evidence-based recommendations for the management of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in adults. Based on evidence from a systematic literature review and expert opinion, ...

Background The effects of fish oil (FO) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have not been examined in the context of contemporary treatment of early RA. This study examined the effects of high versus low ...