Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the potential relation between cumulative exposure to cigarette smoking in patients with or without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a positive family history of the disease.

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 ...

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, ...

Objectives The objective of this study is to develop classification criteria for overall hand osteoarthritis (OA), interphalangeal OA and thumb base OA based on self-reported data and radiographic ...

4 University of Toronto; Toronto Western Research Institute; Psoriatic Arthritis Program, University Health Network; Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, ...

1 Peking University China-Japan Friendship School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China Correspondence to Dr Qinglin Peng, Department of Rheumatology, Key Lab of Myositis, ...

Objectives To determine the incidence of osteoarthrits (OA) in patients with atopic disease compared with matched non-exposed patients. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study with ...

1 Center of Clinical Epidemiology, Hôpital Hotel Dieu; INSERM U738, Université Paris-René Descartes, Paris, France Objectives To validate the two recently developed disease activity indexes for ...

Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, New England Baptist Bone and Joint Institute, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, 4 Blackfan Circle, Room 241, Boston, MA 02115, USA ...

4 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...