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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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Influence of geolocation and ethnicity on the phenotypic expression of primary Sjögren's syndrome at diagnosis in 8310 patients: a cross-sectional study from the Big Data ...

Objectives To analyse the influence of geolocation and ethnicity on the clinical presentation of primary Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) at diagnosis. Methods The Big Data Sjögren Project Consortium is an ...
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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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International recommendations for the assessment of autoantibodies to cellular antigens referred to as anti-nuclear antibodies

16 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 17 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Orebro and Orebro ...
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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, ...
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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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Assessment of enthesitis in ankylosing spondylitis

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, Maasland Hospital Sittard, The Netherlands 3 ...
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Knee pain and osteoarthritis in older adults: a review of community burden and current use of primary health care

Dr G Peat, Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele University, The Medical Institute, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST7 4NY, UKg.m.peat{at}hfac.keele.ac.uk ...
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Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced inflammatory arthritis persists after immunotherapy cessation

Correspondence to Dr Laura C Cappelli, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; lcappel1{at}jhmi.edu Objective We sought to investigate the long-term outcomes of ...
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Short-term progression of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis predicts long-term survival in two independent clinical trial cohorts

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth R Volkmann, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; evolkmann{at}mednet.ucla.edu ...
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2016 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives To develop and validate an international set of classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) using guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European ...
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2014 Update of the EULAR standardised operating procedures for EULAR-endorsed recommendations

Correspondence to Professor Désirée van der Heijde, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; mail{at}dvanderheijde.nl The overall ...