Objective The goal of these studies is to discover novel urinary biomarkers of lupus nephritis (LN). Methods Urine from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients was interrogated for 1000 proteins ...

Correspondence to Dr Yukinori Okada, Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 565-0871, Japan; yokada{at}sg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Objective Alteration of the ...

Clinical heterogeneity, unpredictable course and flares are characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE is—by and large—a systemic disease, occasionally it can be ...

Objective Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common type of arthritis among children, but a few studies have investigated the contribution of rare variants to JIA. In this study, we aimed ...

Objectives Our aim was to compare patterns of musculoskeletal-related healthcare utilisation between male and female patients before and after the diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis (IA). Methods We ...

3 Ghent University, Dept. of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Ghent, Belgium 4 Ghent University Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology, Ghent, Belgium 5 Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, Molecular ...

Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...

Objectives Emerging evidence suggests that the microbiome plays an important role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). We aimed to test the two-hit model of OA pathogenesis and potentiation in ...

Background An important but often insufficient aspect of care in people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) is empowering patients to acquire a good understanding of their disease and building their ...

1 Wonkwang University Medical School, Internal Medicine, Iksan, Korea, Rep. of (South Korea) 2 Jeonbuk National University Medical School, Internal Medicine, Jeonju, Korea, Rep. of (South Korea) ...

Background Hypoalbuminemia is associated with worse medical conditions in chronic diseases and surgery outcomes. The concentration of serum albumin in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus, Denmark 2 Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus, ...