Correspondence to Dr Antonis Fanouriakis, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens 12462, Greece; afanour{at}med.uoa.gr Our objective was to update the EULAR ...

MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr K T Palmer, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, ...

Objectives To develop and validate an international set of classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) using guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European ...

Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Correspondence to Dr Sherine E Gabriel, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Foundation, 200 First Street SW, ...

Objective To investigate whether an intensive early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treat-to-target (T2T) strategy could be improved through the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) assessment of ...

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 ...

12 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 13 Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA 14 Harvard School of ...

Background There is emerging evidence that the development and progression of osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with inflammation. C reactive protein (CRP), a systemic marker for inflammation, may be ...

3 The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Hilal Ince-Askan, Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000 CA, ...

Objectives Osteoarthritis is a complex disease with a huge public health burden. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of osteoarthritis-associated sequence variants, but the ...

Objectives Inflammatory myopathy or myositis is a heterogeneous family of immune-mediated diseases including dermatomyositis (DM), antisynthetase syndrome (AS), immune-mediated necrotising myopathy ...

Objectives MAP4K3 (GLK) overexpression in T cells induces interleukin (IL)-17A production and autoimmune responses. GLK overexpressing T-cell population is correlated with severity of human systemic ...