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Emotional well-being at diagnosis may indicate future mental health risk in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: data from the German inception cohort ICON

Objectives To determine the prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms among young people 7 years and 9 years after ...
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Severe thrombocytopenia in antiphospholipid syndrome: a retrospective study of 432 patients

Introduction Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease characterised by obstetric morbidity and recurrent ...
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Reducing selection bias while maintaining precision through an integrated analysis: 2-year longitudinal analysis of imaging outcomes in the SPondyloArthritis Caught Early cohort

Background Cohort studies often use simple models, for example, completers-only or aggregated scores, to assess changes in imaging outcomes. With more data available, this introduces selection bias.
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Renal involvement in ankylosing spondylitis: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using data from the TriNetX Global Network

Background Renal involvement in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is recognised but understudied, with heterogeneous reports ranging from urinalysis abnormalities to end-stage disease and malignancy. Robust ...
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Persistent arthritis develops in joints previously affected by palindromic flares: a longitudinal study investigating the transition from palindromic rheumatism to rheumatoid ...

Objective To assess whether joint involvement during palindromic rheumatism (PR) flares predicts future arthritis location in patients progressing to persistent inflammatory arthritis (PIA) and to ...
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Adult-onset Still's disease revealed by perimyocarditis and a concomitant reactivation of an EBV infection

1 Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Versailles Hospital, Le Chesnay, France 2 Department of Cardiology, Versailles Hospital, Le Chesnay, France A 17-year-old Caucasian male ...
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EULAR-OMERACT consensus-based scoring system for synovitis 10 years later: a validated tool for routine care and clinical trials

Assessing the presence and degree of synovitis is the cornerstone of managing patients with arthritis. Ultrasound has been shown to be a valuable tool for this in routine care, and several scoring ...
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Sustained exposure to low- and high-income status and risk of all-cause mortality in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based retrospective cohort study from ...

Objective Although socioeconomic status has been linked to various rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-related outcomes, evidence on the association of sustained income status with mortality among patients with ...
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Association between sinusitis and incident rheumatic diseases: a population-based study

Objectives To determine whether antecedent sinusitis is associated with incident rheumatic disease. Methods This population-based case–control study included all individuals meeting classification ...
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Tocilizumab decreases T cells but not macrophages in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis while it increases the levels of serum interleukin-6 and RANKL

Objectives Our knowledge about the effect of tocilizumab (TCZ) on the synovium in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of TCZ on citrullination and ...
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Real-world safety assessment of avacopan in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis

Objective Postmarketing safety data of avacopan, the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drug in a decade for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), are ...