Rheumatology
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OARSI Debate: Are Mechanics Just Another Cytokine?
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Scleroderma Malignancy Risk Linked to Antinuclear Antibodies
Major Finding: More than half (55.5%) of 154 patents who developed cancer within 3 years of their scleroderma diagnosis had autoantibodies...
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ACR Gives Special Consideration to Pregnancy in Nephritis Guidelines
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ACR Releases Updated Lupus Nephritis Guidelines
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Could a Urine Test Predict Response to Biologics?
Major Finding: Baseline metabolomic analysis of pretreatment levels of histamine, glutamine, xanthurenic acid, and ethanolamine in the urine of RA...
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Smokers Less Likely to Respond to Biologic Treatment for RA
Major Finding: Response rates to 6 months of anti-TNF therapy were 27% for current, 63% for previous, and 90% for never smokers.
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Avoid Certain Vaccine-Biologic Combos
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Rheumatoid Vasculitis 5-Year Mortality Is 60%
Major Finding: Five-year mortality from systemic rheumatoid vasculitis was 60% during 2001-2010 and 51% during 1988-2000.Data Source: The findings...
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Joint Involvement Less Common in Presence of Sjögren's Autoantibodies
Major Finding: Anti-Ro52 autoantibodies were significantly associated with lower risk of articular (RR 0.7, P = .039) and higher risk of...
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Biologics for RA Do Not Increase Solid Cancer Risk
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Exercise Eases Upper-Limb Dysfunction in Early RA
Major Finding: Disability, function, hand grip strength, self-efficacy, and DAS28 and pain scores were all significantly (P less than .05)...