Background Microplastics (MPs) have been identified in different types of tissue, including lung, bowel, placenta and as well in human whole blood [1]. During analysis of synovial fluid samples with ...

Background: Although disease-specific health status measures are available for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), no instrument exists for assessing quality of life (QoL) in the condition. Objective: To ...

Psoriatic Arthritis Program, Centre for Prognosis Studies in The Rheumatic Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to Dr D D Gladman, ...

Background MM-II, a novel suspension of empty large multilamellar liposomes composed of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), has demonstrated beneficial ...

1 Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego School of ...

The past 25 years have witnessed a remarkable revolution in outcomes for patients living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Historically, uncontrolled joint inflammation was commonplace leading to ...

Background: Recent EULAR ‘Points to Consider’ provide guidance on management and treatment of Women of Childbearing Age (WoCBA) with chronic rheumatic diseases (CRD: RA, axSpA, PsA). However, it is ...

Objectives The dynamics of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal changes across a range of serum urate concentrations in people with gout are unknown. This study aimed to systematically examine the ...

Background Interleukin-23 (IL-23), a key regulator of multiple effector cytokines, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of psoriatic lesions, synovitis, enthesitis, and bone erosion. Risankizumab ...

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 ...

Objectives Sjögren’s disease (SD) is an autoimmune disease affecting the exocrine glands that is associated with autoantibodies against Ro60/SS-A, anti-Ro52/TRIM21, La/SS-B and others. We examined the ...