Background The current standard of care in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires regular assessment of disease activity (DA). All standard RA DA measurement instruments require joint counts to be ...

Background A EULAR taskforce was convened to develop recommendations for lifestyle behaviours in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs). The aim of this paper was to review the literature on ...

The term ‘undifferentiated connective tissue disease’ (UCTD) is generally used to describe clinical entities characterised by clinical and serological manifestations of systemic autoimmune diseases ...

Kronzer VL, Davis JM, Hanson AC, et al. Association between sinusitis and incident rheumatic diseases: a population-based study. RMD Open 2024;10:e003622. In this article, the polymyalgia rheumatica ...

Objective Subjects with subclinical psoriatic arthritis (PsA), defined as the presence of arthralgia in psoriasis (PsO), are at higher risk of PsA but scant real-world data exist. Our aims were to (1) ...

Objectives The entheseal nature of digital annular pulleys insertion was recently described, with high resolution ultrasound (US) reliably identifying these submillimetre structures with impressive ...

Anti-MDA5 antibodies are associated with a variant of (often amyopathic) dermatomyositis and a rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (ILD). In cases with severe MDA5-associated ILD aggressive ...

Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, poly/dermatomyositis and systemic ...

Objectives To compare current all-cause mortality rates in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic sclerosis ...

Objectives To describe the development and assess the psychometric properties of the novel ‘Symptoms in Persons At Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis’ (SPARRA) questionnaire in individuals at risk of ...

Objective To examine whether obesity and/or overweight are independently associated with an increased risk of remission failure in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), treated with ...

Background There is significant interest in determining risk factors in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A core set of risk factors for clinical arthritis development has not been ...