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Long-term intake of dietary long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study of women

Correspondence to Professor Alicja Wolk, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden; Alicja.Wolk{at}ki.se ...
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Are switches from oral to subcutaneous methotrexate or addition of ciclosporin to methotrexate useful steps in a tight control treatment strategy for rheumatoid arthritis? A ...

1 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center ...
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A Phase II study of the efficacy and safety of rontalizumab (rhuMAb interferon-α) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (ROSE)

Objectives To examine the safety and efficacy of rontalizumab, a humanised IgG1 anti-interferon α (anti-IFN-α) monoclonal antibody, in patients with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus ...
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Disease activity assessment in childhood vasculitis: development and preliminary validation of the Paediatric Vasculitis Activity Score (PVAS)

1 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic 2 Institute of ...
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Assessing the performance of AI chatbots in answering patients’ common questions about low back pain

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and readability of the answers generated by large language model (LLM)-chatbots to common patient questions about low back pain (LBP).
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F8: Back to the future: how to mix the old and new treatments for SLE, Sjögren's and APS ...
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Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial

Objectives Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating ...
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CD-19 CAR-T cells for polyrefractory rheumatoid arthritis

‘Poly-refractory’ disease affects 2.7% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have failed different groups of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b-DMARDS) and targeted synthetic ...
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The effect of different durations of remission on damage accrual: results from a prospective monocentric cohort of Caucasian patients

Correspondence to Professor Andrea Doria, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2, Padova 35128, Italy; adoria{at}unipd.it Aim To identify the ...
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The squeeze test of MCP joints: a scarcity of scientific data, especially from primary care

1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to A H M van der ...
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Are patients with systemic lupus erythematosus at increased risk for COVID-19?

Correspondence to Dr Ennio Giulio Favalli, Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milano 20122, Lombardia, Italy; ennio.favalli{at}gmail.com The global health emergency generated by the ...
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Relationship between serum urate and changes in dual-energy CT monosodium urate crystal volume over 1 year in people with gout: an individual participant data analysis

Objectives The dynamics of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal changes across a range of serum urate concentrations in people with gout are unknown. This study aimed to systematically examine the ...