Schnitzler syndrome and Schnitzler-like syndromes.
Schnitzler syndrome is a rare disease of adult-onset with main features including chronic urticarial rash, recurrent fever, arthralgia or arthritis, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined sig...
Arthritis
Authoritative medical articles, news, research, and guidelines pertaining to Arthritis.
Effectiveness and safety of subcutaneous abatacept in biologic-naïve RA patients at Week 52: A Japanese multicentre investigational study (ORIGAMI study).
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of abatacept over 52 weeks in biologic-naïve rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with moderate disease activity in the prospective, 5-year, observa...
Sesquiterpenes from Kadsura coccinea attenuate rheumatoid arthritis-related inflammation by inhibiting the NF-κB and JAK2/STAT3 signal pathways.
The roots of Kadsura coccinea is commonly used in Tujia ethnomedicine, named "heilaohu", having the effect of treating rheumatic arthritis (RA). Chemical investigation on the ethanol extract...
Validating the "Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication" in Persian, and Evaluating Treatment Satisfaction Among Patients With Psoriasis.
Psoriasis is a dermatological condition often associated with systemic comorbidities such as arthritis. Because of the vital role of treatment compliance in improvement in patients' conditio...
Effects on health-related quality of life in the randomized, controlled crossover trial ADIRA (Anti-inflammatory Diet In Rheumatoid Arthritis).
Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) often report impaired health-related quality of life (HrQoL) such as difficulties in daily life, pain, fatigue and an affected social life. Even when ...
Emerging evidence of Toll-like receptors as a putative pathway linking maternal inflammation and neurodevelopmental disorders in human offspring: a systematic review.
Inflammation is increasingly recognised to play a major role in gene-environment interactions in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The effects of aberrant immune responses to environmenta...
Outpatient Pain Management Via Telementoring Proves Effective
Although opioid prescribing and opioid overdose are very important topics in pain management medicine, there are not enough pain management specialists to handle all the patients in need. Fo...
Treatment Patterns and Resource Utilization of Pregnant Women with Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases or Psoriasis in Germany: A Claims Database Analysis.
Uncontrolled inflammatory disease activity can impact pregnancy outcomes and the health of the mother and child. This retrospective claims database analysis assessed treatment patterns befor...
Polarization of rheumatoid macrophages is regulated by the CDKN2B-AS1/ MIR497/TXNIP axis.
The polarization of macrophages plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis. The macrophages can have pro-inflammatory M1 polarization and various types of alternati...
Passive Smoking Throughout the Life Course and the Risk of Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adulthood Among Women.
To investigate passive smoking throughout the life course and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), while accounting for personal smoking.We analyzed the Nurses' Health Study II prospective...
First Report of Pestalotiopsis chamaeropis Causing Leaf Spot on Eurya nitida in China.
Eurya nitida Korth. belonging to the family Theaceae is an evergreen shrub or small tree and is usually used as a very important ornamental tree and nectar source plant (Khan et al. 1992; Ma...
Adherence to self-administered biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs across health-system specialty pharmacies.
In an effort to expedite the publication of articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic, AJHP is posting these manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts hav...
Muscle Function & Composition Linked With Knee Pain Trajectory
“For most patients, pain control remains unsatisfactory,” explains Feng Pan, PhD, MMed, MBBS. “The few pharmacologic analgesic options available have limited efficacy and carry a subst...
Flower beverages of native medicinal plants from Argentina (Acacia caven, Geoffroea decorticans and Larrea divaricata) as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
Herbal beverages have been used as a natural part of the medicinal and food culture in northwestern Argentina. The flower beverages (infusion or decoction) of Acacia caven, Geoffroea decorti...
Activated peripheral blood B cells in rheumatoid arthritis and relationship to anti-TNF treatment and response: randomized clinical trial for anti-TNF effects on B cells.
B cells can become activated in germinal center (GC) reactions in secondary lymphoid tissue and ectopic GCs in synovium in RA that may be TNF and lymphotoxin (LT) dependent. Here we characte...
Research agenda setting with children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: lessons learned.
Several health research agendas have successfully been developed with adults but rarely with children. Children are still seldom recognized as possessing credible knowledge about their own b...
Musculoskeletal ultrasonography in rheumatic diseases.
Ultrasonography is an imaging technique that is used for evaluation of soft tissues based-on utilization of sound waves. Sound waves has been used for a long time in non-medical field includ...
Frailty as a novel predictor of achieving comprehensive disease control (CDC) in rheumatoid arthritis.
Frailty is a construct recently introduced in the context of inflammatory joint diseases. To date, it is not clear if frailty can act as a negative factor in the achievement of comprehensive...
Impaired Antibody Response to the BNT162b2 Messenger RNA Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
With a vaccine effectiveness of 95% for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 (BNT162b2) was the first vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome co...
Impact of Cadmium Mediated by Tobacco Use in Musculoskeletal Diseases.
Tobacco use has a negative impact on health due to its relationship with the development of high-mortality diseases, such as pulmonary cancer. However, the effect of cadmium (Cd), present in...
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