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Bonnie L Bermas, MD, discusses the ways in which the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade will change the way rheumatologists are able to care for their patients.

Although results were associative rather than causative, a decrease in BMI may prevent, delay, or slow the structural defects in knee osteoarthritis.

"Dactylitis is considered a core domain of musculoskeletal symptoms in psoriatic arthritis and is important for both patients and physicians when developing treatment strategies.”

Fatigue, a highly multifactorial manifestation of lupus, can be related to disease activity or independent of the disease itself. Investigators determined whether fatigue could be a significant confounder of Physician Global Assessment ratings.

"Online interventions have the potential to reach a wide audience, allowing exercise to be undertaken from the comfort and convenience of home and thereby overcoming some of the barriers to exercise reported in the osteoarthritis population.”

The highly encouraging results of the small study may lead to a new therapeutic approach in lupus. However, long-term safety and efficacy need to be evaluated in a larger cohort.

Rebecca Shepherd, MD, MBA, FACR, FACP, discusses the American College of Rheumatology's 2022 Rheumatic Disease Report Card in depth, including what can be done to improve scores and the next steps for her team.

The Rheumatology Research Foundation has recently announced a grant, called the Community Practice Innovation Award, which focuses on supporting rheumatology practitioners to conduct their crucial, and potentially life-changing, research.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Rheumatology Network's highlights from the week ending September 17, 2022.

The guidelines will provide more options for the treatment and prevention of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and will inform rheumatologists about the requirements for anti-resorptive therapy after anabolic agents are discontinued.

Bimekizumab provided maintenance of completely clear skin and health-related quality of life in most patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis over a 3-year period.

Results were based on the phase 4 MIRROR trial, which analyzed differences in treatment response for concomitant therapy compared with placebo in adults with uncontrolled gout.

The updated guidelines highlight new recommendations for medications, flexibility in drug selection, and sequential therapy.

Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, frequently co-occurs with the immune-mediated inflammatory condition, psoriasis.

Investigators believe that coronary intervention, intensified medical therapy, and an aggressive risk factor optimization approach should be available to patients with rheumatic disease presenting with myocardial infarction whenever possible.

New mothers are understandably nervous about taking medication while breastfeeding. Which treatments are appropriate for breastfeeding women with rheumatoid arthritis? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Rheumatology Network's highlights from the week ending September 10, 2022.

The Lupus Research Alliance's 2022 Global Team Science Awards (GTSA) grant will provide $3 million for 3 years to each of the winners.

“Whether treatment with litifilimab, a humanized monoclonal antibody against BDCA2, would be efficacious in reducing disease activity in patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus has not been extensively studied.”

In the prospective, non-interventional SUSTAIN study, patients with active psoriatic arthritis received ustekinumab for 3 years in routine clinical care.

“Kinesiophobia plays a major role in the onset, persistence, and exacerbation of chronic disability in a variety of musculoskeletal disorders."

"Lupus nephritis (LN) patients might suffer from mental disorders which further prolong the LN treatment duration and affect patients' quality of life.”

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on Rheumatology Network's highlights from the week ending September 3, 2022.

"The high prevalence of severe infection in newly diagnosed SLE implies that infections may be related to the underlying immune disturbance of SLE itself.”

"Sex may play an underlying role in driving the mechanisms of psoriatic arthritis, leading to different clinical manifestations of the disease," investigators theorized.

Fibromyalgia patients have 3 times the rate of depression compared with those without the condition and more than 50% of patients with fibromyalgia experience lifetime depression.

"Comprehensively defining the risk of melanoma associated with low-dose methotrexate is important for clinicians across several medical disciplines."

Previous renal response endpoints used in lupus nephritis trials lacked uniformity and their accuracy of long-term kidney survival prediction was questionable.

Machine learning algorithms identify patterns without being explicitly programmed to do so, which allows for unbiased discoveries.