Rheumatoid Arthritis

Patients with rheumatic diseases should limit their participation in physical activity. True or false?

Test your knowledge of RA comorbidities with this short quiz.

At 12 weeks, patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving filgotinib responded and achieved low disease activity at significantly higher rates compared to placebo.

Does the obesity paradox suggest a protective effect?

Where there’s smoke, there’s an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

Foods that promote inflammation can raise the risk of seropositive RA in younger women but not in those older than age 55.

What underlies the apparent disparities in disease course and treatment outcomes between men and women with rheumatoid arthritis?

This dietary pattern has already been shown to reduce overall mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Do the benefits extend to RA?

Here: 6 key beliefs patients hold about DMARDs that drive their reluctance to continue therapy.

Which clinical and psychosocial factors have been implicated in a lack of response to MTX?

What constellation of symptoms points to the diagnosis?

The challenge: to distinguish patients at risk for progression to RA from those who have non-rheumatic arthritis.

Inflammation may underlie the link between major depressive disorder and RA.

Are you up for a little challenge? Test your diagnostic acumen with these 5 questions.

How exposure to vapor, gas, dust, and fumes can contribute to the progression of RA.

Early therapy for undifferentiated arthritis can reduce the risk of progression to full-blown rheumatoid arthritis.

Although disease activity remains the key risk factor, this test can identify a greater predisposition to thrombosis.

How high is the risk of CV disease in RA? What rare but serious complications can rheumatoid vasculitis cause? Answers here.

A wish list from your patients with rheumatoid arthritis who are-or who want to become-mothers.

Reassure patients with RA that exercise is safe and may lead to better functional status and improved cardiorespiratory function.

Mental health is clearly tied to disease activity in RA. Here: the implications for clinical practice.

Early, intensive treatment of RA has long-term benefits, including a reduction in mortality, report Dutch researchers at EULAR 2018.

Updates from the 2018 British Society for Rheumatology conference focus on RA treatment targets and resistance to biologics.

Smoking, obesity, RF and anti-CCP positivity, high disease activity, early erosions-one of these was found to protect against severe joint damage.

Consider screening patients with RA for HBV exposure/infection as a part of the pretreatment assessment.