1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Boston, United States of America 2 Boston University School of Public Health, Biostatistics & Epidemiology Data ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the potential relation between cumulative exposure to cigarette smoking in patients with or without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a positive family history of the disease.

3 Clinic of Rehabilitation, Oslo University Hospital – Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway 4 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Oslo University Hospital – Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway 5 ...

7 Maastricht University Medical Center and CAPHRI Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor D van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical ...

Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Dr A I Catrina, Rheumatology ...

Objective To assess the incidence and risk factors of cardiovascular events in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods A cohort analysis was conducted involving patients recruited and ...

Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios T Boumpas, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, National ...

Objective To examine associations of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (aCCP) antibody and rheumatoid factor (RF) concentrations with future disease activity in men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

1 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Medicine, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America 2 The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States ...

Study of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) began about four decades ago with the discovery of HLA-DRB1. Since the beginning of this century, a number of non-HLA risk loci have been identified ...

Objectives Osteoarthritis is associated with cell death and extracellular matrix degradation in articular cartilage. Autophagy is an essential cellular homeostasis mechanism that was found to be ...

1 Division of Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain 2 Division of Internal Medicine, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain 3 Division of Clinical Biochemistry, La Paz University ...