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Nanotherapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Advantages, Challenges, and Future Direction

Christine Pham, MD, chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis discusses the advantages and challenges of applying nanotherapies in rheumatoid arthritis.
A Deeper Look at RA Disease Activity and Sleep Quality

The study authors examined the association between rheumatoid arthritis disease activity and different dimensions of sleep quality.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Extra-Articular Manifestations: Challenges of Interstitial Lung Disease

The investigators summarize extra-articular manifestations in rheumatoid arthritis, emphasizing the recognized risk factors and the available guidelines to managing them and comorbidities in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Multiple Factors Associated With Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Researchers found data that showed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, mental health, sleep, and physical functioning might be improved with prescribed exercise as an intervention.
Preventive Treatment Benefits in Balance With Adverse Effects in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Researchers are exploring whether there is another window of opportunity in which drug treatment in patients at high risk for RA might prevent the disease.

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Glucocorticoid Prescribing Practices Vary Widely in Incident RA

Rheumatology Advisor Contributing Writer

November 19, 2019

Persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly use glucocorticoids to manage their disease. Study authors seek to determine how providers prescribe glucocorticoids to commercially insured, newly diagnosed patients with RA in the United States.

Foot MRI Unnecessary for Predicting RA in Clinically Suspect Arthralgia

Caleb Rans

November 13, 2019

Although MRI-detected tenosynovitis was associated with inflammatory arthritis development, the addition of foot MRI to hand MRI did not increase the predictive accuracy.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Care and the Option of Telemedicine

Rheumatology Advisor Contributing Writer

November 6, 2019

In Alaska, researchers examined the use of telemedicine as an option in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

The presence of the shared epitope alleles at HLA-DRB1 and detectable levels of RA-related autoantibodies (including rheumatoid factor and anticyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies) in the serum prior to symptom onset elevates the risk for RA. [2]

Disordered Antigen, Epitope Overlap Examined in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatology Advisor Contributing Writer

November 4, 2019

Investigators evaluates autoantibodies against the citrulline-containing, homocitrulline-containing, and native peptides found in patients who were seropositive and seronegative in an effort to identify the unifying and novel features of autoantibody reactivity in RA.