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An analysis of 11 late-stage clinical trials shows guselkumab provides a consistent and comparable safety profile to placebo in treated patients.

Therapies including biologics and corticosteroids were more frequently used among patients with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus who developed severe COVID-19.

Chronic tophaceous gout was demonstrated to be an independent risk factor linked to the development of colorectal cancer.

New data from CCR East show Black and Hispanic patients with PsA are significantly more likely to report worse health-related quality of life than White patients.

An analysis of more than 250 pregnancies among women with SLE from the Hopkins Lupus Cohort provides insight into risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes based on serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels using real-world data.

An analysis of the National Inpatient Sample offers a deep dive into the risk of adverse outcomes associated with presence of polymyositis or dermatomyositis among patients with congestive heart failure.

Pooled data from the phase 3 TULIP program offer additional insight into the effects of anifrolumab use in people with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus.

Patients with psoriatic arthritis and/or psoriasis reported improved BMI and HbA1C after 6 months of apremilast—with pronounced benefit among patients with obesity.

A comparison of monotherapy biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs initiated in naive patients show each are beneficial for rheumatoid arthritis.

Data from the UPLIFT study show patients with psoriatic arthritis and their physicians see eye-to-eye on most subjects—except for treatment goals.

Data from an analysis of kidney biopsies from the AURORA 2 trial presented at CCR East 2023 offer new insight into the long-term histological impact of voclosporin use on renal function in patients with lupus nephritis.

A maternal rheumatoid arthritis (RA) diagnosis before delivery was linked to an increased risk of offspring with autism spectrum disorder, particularly for those with seronegative RA.

The use of traditional Chinese medicine had a statistically significant association with improved clinical indicators in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

A Cox regression analysis showed a significant association between a gout diagnosis and subsequent breast cancer diagnosis in the total population.

Themes related to coping with fibromyalgia included emotional coping, practical coping, and coping with the social environment.

In patients with fibromyalgia, vitamin D supplementation improved physical function, and role limitations due to emotional health, general health, and social function.

The April 2023 rheumatology month in review highlights recent data regarding physical activity levels among patients with JIA, a link between fibromyalgia and psychiatric disorders, and a feature focused on the treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica.

Our latest case report from Brady Pregerson, MD, featuresa woman in her mid-60s with a history of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis treated with levothyroxine presenting to the hospital with 4-5 days of pain, swelling and redness on her left thumb.

Patients with “good health literacy” had significantly lower disease activity over time than those with “several health literacy limitations,” adjusting for age, gender and education level.

GPX3, an antioxidant enzyme and reactive oxygen species scavenger, was categorized as a hub gene in rheumatoid arthritis neutrophils.

Compared with those without SLE, those with SLE had a higher risk of fetal morbidity and mothers were almost 4 times as likely to require a blood transfusion or develop a cerebrovascular disorder.

Patients with myasthenia gravis have a higher risk of COVID-19-associated emergency department visits, hospital admissions, and 30-day mortality, but vaccination acceptance rate was high among the population

While age and fat mass were inversely associated with cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), the physical activity index was positively associated with CRF.

Patients with fibromyalgia receiving the synbiotic intervention reported decreased levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, as well as improvements in quality of life during daily activities.

Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in remission exhibited higher values of Disease Activity Score-28 for Rheumatoid Arthritis with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28-ESR) compared with men.

Between 2011 and 2018, age- and sex-adjusted prevalence among Asian Americans doubled from 3.3% to 6.6%, which exceeded all other ethnic and racial groups.

Most associate bariatric surgery with improved health outcomes, but a new study suggests clinicians and patients should be aware of potential changes in bone density brought on as a result of undergoing bariatric surgery.

At month 6, 71.0% in the smart system of disease management group achieved a DAS28-CRP of 3.2 or less compared with 64.5% in the control group.

A negative relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and hyperuricemia in total, as well as in the L1, L2, and L3 lumbar vertebrae, was demonstrated in the multivariable-adjusted regression models.

Patients with intercritical gout had higher CXCL12 levels, IL-18, and IL-1β when compared with controls.