Original research: Global, regional and national trends in the epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis from 1990 to 2021: an age-period-cohort effect analysis of the global burden of disease study 2021 ...

Objectives Because a significant fraction of patients with lupus nephritis (LN) develops renal impairment, there is a need to better understand the mechanisms underlying disease progression. Here, we ...

Objectives Elevated serum urate (SU) levels are associated with arterial atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular events. However, an optimal therapeutic target SU level for delaying ...

Objective To develop a model that assesses the risk for progressive disease in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) over the short term, in order to guide clinical management. Methods Baseline ...

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are a group of severe autoimmune diseases, sharing some similarities, whose cause is unknown and treatment is empirical. While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most ...

5 Rheumatology Unit - AOU, S. Anna, Ferrara, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy 6 Rheumatology Unit, University of Bari, Bari, Italy 7 University of Siena, Rheumatology Unit, Siena, Italy Objective ...

Objectives Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)-expressing T cells are implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. A subset of CXCR5 − T cells, ...

Objective We aimed to analyse the association between infections and the subsequent risk of giant cell arteritis (GCA) and/or polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) by a systematic review and a meta-analysis of ...

Objectives Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Frailty has been associated with an increased cardiovascular disease risk (CVR) in the general ...