Researchers identified the clinical features that distinguished acute lymphoblastic leukemia from juvenile idiopathic arthritis in children with persistent bone or joint pain for at least 1 month.
Researchers found data that showed costs were reduced while tapering treatment with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, but with a decrease in quality-adjusted life years.
Researchers interviewed rheumatologists in England to determine what factors they use to determine treatment in rheumatoid arthritis.
Researchers assessed the association between oral health, microbial communities and juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Researchers investigated the common and tissue-specific pathways involved in the different tissues of patients with systemic sclerosis.
Researchers evaluated the risk for adverse events, including serious infections, among patients with self-reported psoriatic arthritis compared with those with psoriasis.
Researchers studied the effect of secukinumab on enthesitis resolution in patients with psoriatic arthritis, using pooled data from the FUTURE 2 and 3 trials.
The American College of Rheumatology and the European League Against Rheumatism developed and validated an international set of classification criteria for IgG4-related disease.
Researchers determined the association between midarm muscle circumference and osteoporosis among community-dwelling older men.
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Researchers evaluated the relationship between platelet/lymphocyte and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratios, and vitamin D levels in low bone mineral density of postmenopausal women.
