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AB1628 THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN ITALY IN THE LAST DECADE

2 Azienda Zero, Veneto Region, Clinical governance Unit, Padua, Italy 3 Azienda Zero, Veneto Region, Epidemiological Department, Padua, Italy 4 Azienda Zero, Veneto Region, Clinical governance Unit, ...
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Acute effect of milk on serum urate concentrations: a randomised controlled crossover trial

Objectives Recent observational studies have highlighted the beneficial role of dairy ingestion in gout prevention. The aims of this study were to determine the acute effects of milk ingestion on ...
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Long-term intake of dietary long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study of women

Correspondence to Professor Alicja Wolk, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden; Alicja.Wolk{at}ki.se ...
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Dose-related patterns of glucocorticoid-induced side effects

Objective: To identify patterns of self-reported health problems relating to dose and duration of glucocorticoid intake in unselected patients with rheumatoid arthritis from routine practice. Methods: ...
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Are switches from oral to subcutaneous methotrexate or addition of ciclosporin to methotrexate useful steps in a tight control treatment strategy for rheumatoid arthritis? A ...

1 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center ...
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Disease activity assessment in childhood vasculitis: development and preliminary validation of the Paediatric Vasculitis Activity Score (PVAS)

1 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic 2 Institute of ...
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A Phase II study of the efficacy and safety of rontalizumab (rhuMAb interferon-α) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (ROSE)

Objectives To examine the safety and efficacy of rontalizumab, a humanised IgG1 anti-interferon α (anti-IFN-α) monoclonal antibody, in patients with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus ...
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Pneumonia vaccination timing in relation to starting conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of infections, and pneumococcal vaccination is recommended. With some evidence that pneumococcal vaccinations are not as effective when ...
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Assessing the performance of AI chatbots in answering patients’ common questions about low back pain

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy and readability of the answers generated by large language model (LLM)-chatbots to common patient questions about low back pain (LBP).
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F8: Back to the future: how to mix the old and new treatments for SLE, Sjögren's and APS ...
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Peripheral blood immunophenotypic diversity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and its impact on therapeutic responsiveness

Objective Considering the diverse aetiologies and immunodysregulatory statuses observed in each patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stratification based on peripheral blood immunophenotyping holds ...
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Relationship between serum urate and changes in dual-energy CT monosodium urate crystal volume over 1 year in people with gout: an individual participant data analysis

Objectives The dynamics of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal changes across a range of serum urate concentrations in people with gout are unknown. This study aimed to systematically examine the ...