Correspondence to Martin Aringer, Medicine III, University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden D-01307, Germany; martin.aringer{at}uniklinikum-dresden.de; Dr ...

4 Hunan Key Laboratory of Joint Degeneration and Injury, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China 5 National Clinical Research Center of Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, ...

Objectives Osteoarthritis is a complex disease with a huge public health burden. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of osteoarthritis-associated sequence variants, but the ...

Objectives Inflammatory myopathy or myositis is a heterogeneous family of immune-mediated diseases including dermatomyositis (DM), antisynthetase syndrome (AS), immune-mediated necrotising myopathy ...

Objectives This study aims to elucidate the microbial signatures associated with autoimmune diseases, particularly systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), compared ...

3 The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Hilal Ince-Askan, Rheumatology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000 CA, ...

Objective To establish European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) points to consider for non-physician health professionals to prevent and manage fragility fractures in adults 50 years or older.

Objectives MAP4K3 (GLK) overexpression in T cells induces interleukin (IL)-17A production and autoimmune responses. GLK overexpressing T-cell population is correlated with severity of human systemic ...

Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), along with glucocorticoid use, is associated with cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular safety of glucocorticoids in RA is controversial and may be related to ...

7 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Neurology, Boston, MA, United States of America 8 Harvard Medical School, Neurology, Boston, MA, United States of America Background Inclusion body myositis (IBM), a ...

Psoriasis is a common chronic, recurrent, immune mediated disease of the skin and joints. It can have a significant negative impact on the physical, emotional, and, psychosocial wellbeing of affected ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of systemic autoimmune inflammatory disorders characterised by symmetrical skeletal muscle weakness and accelerated fatigue also in the early ...