Beyond Inflammation: Why Understanding the Brain Matters in Inflammatory Arthritis
Persistent pain remains a major challenge in inflammatory arthritis, even when joint inflammation is well controlled. Pain and associated symptoms such as fatigue cannot be explained by peripheral inflammation alone but reflect altered central pain processing. These changes may arise through “top‐down” mechanisms, reflecting pre‐existing dysfunction in
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Response to comment on 'Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness'. [PDF]
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437 Construct validity assessment of the lupus low disease activity state (lldas) – a case based validity study [PDF]
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Background Body mass index (BMI), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and pretreatment urate levels have been reported to influence the urate‐lowering response to allopurinol. We investigated whether the fractional excretion of urate (FEUA) also modulates this response and relates to oxypurinol concentrations. We further evaluated its potential influence
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Construct validity of the atopic dermatitis control tool in the pediatric population: A prospective study. [PDF]
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Factor structure and construct validity of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) among Portuguese college students [PDF]
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Objectives Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a severe extra‐articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study aimed to externally validate a genetic risk score (GRS) and a combined risk score for predicting the risk of RA‐associated PF in an independent cohort of early‐RA patients. Methods This study utilized an inception cohort of 1118 patients
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The Schedule for the Assessment of Drug-Induced Movement Disorders (SADIMoD): inter-rater reliability and construct validity [PDF]
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Sex differences in medication discontinuation in axial spondyloarthritis.
Objective We examined sex differences in medication discontinuation among patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) initiating tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi), interleukin‐17 inhibitors (IL‐17i), or Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi). Methods Using data from the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry (2003–2025), we ...
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Validating an assessment and feedback instrument for use in dietetics education: construct validity of the mini clinical evaluation exercise (Mini-CEX). [PDF]
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