Objectives Cardiopulmonary involvement (CPI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). The 6 min walk test (6MWT) is widely used to assess functional capacity, but its ...

Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can negatively impact patients’ social participation. The aim of this study was to identify the determinants of social participation in patients with ...

What is already known on this topic Studies conducted in the USA and Europe highlight problems with healthcare pathways and a heavier economic burden due to increased healthcare use and societal costs ...

Background Self-management of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases often involves regular assessments of disease-related outcomes. In recent years, smartphone apps are used to collect electronic ...

Objective To characterise changes in selected haematological parameters following once-daily oral baricitinib dosing.Methods Data were pooled from eight randomised clinical trials (four phase 3, three ...

Objective Here, we assess the usage of high throughput sequencing (HTS) in rheumatic research and the availability of public HTS data of rheumatic samples.Methods We performed a semiautomated ...

Objectives To compare a bDMARD mode of action cycle vs swap treatment strategy in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) or axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) after first tumour necrosis factor ...

Background/purpose The manifestations of uveitis are well established in axial spondyloarthritis (ax-SpA), but not in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We aimed to assess, in a large unselected series of PsA ...

Jih- Jin Tsai, Li-Teh Liu, Chun-Hong Chen, et al. COVID-19 outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs. RMD Open 2023;9:e003038.

What this study adds By studying a large longitudinal cohort of people with untreated early RA followed up for up to 48 weeks, we showed that obesity at diagnosis was a risk factor for poor response ...

It is evident that the morning symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are linked to the circadian abnormal increase in night inflammation, favoured by inadequate cortisol secretion under conditions of ...

Original research: Molecular insights into the relationship between sustained CRP elevation and endothelial dysfunction in axial spondyloarthritis (5 July, 2025 ...