Objective To develop a model that assesses the risk for progressive disease in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) over the short term, in order to guide clinical management. Methods Baseline ...

Original research: Global, regional and national trends in the epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis from 1990 to 2021: an age-period-cohort effect analysis of the global burden of disease study 2021 ...

Objectives Because a significant fraction of patients with lupus nephritis (LN) develops renal impairment, there is a need to better understand the mechanisms underlying disease progression. Here, we ...

Objectives Elevated serum urate (SU) levels are associated with arterial atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular events. However, an optimal therapeutic target SU level for delaying ...

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are a group of severe autoimmune diseases, sharing some similarities, whose cause is unknown and treatment is empirical. While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most ...

Objectives This study investigates the diagnostic role of synovial tissue analysis in children presenting with arthritis and assesses its prognostic significance to predict clinical outcome in ...

Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease, affecting more than 15% of the world’s adult population. The prevalence of the disease is expected to continue to rise. This disease can lead to ...

Objective To compare characteristics, pregnancies and treatments during pregnancies of seronegative and seropositive antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), to analyse factors associated with obstetrical ...

1 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands Objectives Methotrexate ...