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Serum concentrations of 25-OH vitamin D in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are inversely related to disease activity: is it time to routinely supplement ...

2 Department of Rheumatology, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Sciences Centre, Debrecen, Hungary 3 Division of Clinical Immunology, Third Department of Medicine, University of Debrecen ...
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Rituximab for IgG4-related disease: a prospective, open-label trial

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of rituximab (RTX) in IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) in an open-label pilot trial. Methods We treated 30 IgG4-RD patients with two doses of RTX (1000 mg each). The ...
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EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic ...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease encountered throughout Europe. A task force for the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Trials met in 1998 to determine the ...
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Long-term outcome in polymyositis and dermatomyositis

1 Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
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Effect of pregnancy on disease flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Correspondence to Dr Amanda M Eudy, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Amanda.eudy{at}duke.edu Objective Prior studies found conflicting results about ...
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Assessment of outcome in ankylosing spondylitis: an extended radiographic scoring system

1 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, St Maartenshospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Medical ...
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Socioeconomic status and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Swedish EIRA study

Objective: To study whether formal education and occupational class are associated with incidence of rheumatoid arthritis overall and with the incidence of the two major subgroups of rheumatoid ...
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Validation of a prediction rule for development of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with early undifferentiated arthritis

Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to Dr B Kuriya, University of Toronto, Wolf and Lebovic Building, 60 Murray Street, Box ...
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Chlamydia pneumoniae--a new causative agent of reactive arthritis and undifferentiated oligoarthritis.

Department of Medicine, Klinikum Steglitz, Free University of Berlin, Germany. OBJECTIVE--To examine whether reactive arthritis (ReA) known to occur after a urogenital infection with Chlamydia ...
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Incidence trend of five common musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2017 at the global, regional and national level: results from the global burden of disease study 2017

Correspondence to Professor Lingyun Sun, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing University Medical School Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing 210008, China; ...
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Defining conditions where long-term glucocorticoid treatment has an acceptably low level of harm to facilitate implementation of existing recommendations: viewpoints from an ...

3 Amsterdam Rheumatology& Immunology Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 Medical Humanities, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
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Type II collagen degradation and its regulation in articular cartilage in osteoarthritis

3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Montreal, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, ...