Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...

The goal of the Bone and Joint Decade is to improve the health related quality of life for people with musculoskeletal disorders throughout the world. Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common ...

Correspondence to Professor Yoshiya Tanaka, First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan; tanaka{at}med.uoeh-u.ac.jp ...

Objective To assess the efficacy/safety of tofacitinib in adult patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Methods This phase III, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study enrolled ...

1 Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK 2 School of Translational Medicine, The University of Manchester, ...

Objective: To examine the therapeutic effect of the interleukin 1 (IL1) receptor antagonist anakinra in ankylosing spondylitis in an open label trial. Methods: Anakinra (100 mg) was given ...

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy and safety of adalimumab in patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA). Methods Patients fulfilled Assessment of Spondyloarthritis international ...

Objectives To identify factors that predict response to belimumab treatment in the phase 3 BLISS trials of autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and further analyse clinical ...

Objective To develop and validate revised classification criteria for granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an ...

4 Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitario Lisboa Norte, Universidade de Lisboa, and Centro Académico deMedicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 5 Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre ...

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 ...

National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr H Susan J Picavet Department for Prevention and Health Services Research (PZO, pb 101), National ...