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Osteoporosis and rheumatic diseases

Reumatismo, 2014
Numerous rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, dermatomyositis/polymyositis and vasculitis are characterized by osteoporosis and fragility fractures. Inflammatory cytokines, glucocorticoid treatment, immobilization
Maruotti N., CORRADO, ADDOLORATA, CANTATORE, FRANCESCO PAOLO   +2 more
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Depression in Psoriatic Arthritis: Dimensional Aspects and Link with Systemic Inflammation

Rheumatology and Therapy, 2020
Studying comorbidities in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) provides a better understanding of the extended burden of the disease. Depression and anxiety are well recognized but understudied comorbidities in patients with PsA.
Ashish J. Mathew, Vinod Chandran
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Pilot study of nurse-led rheumatic heart disease echocardiography screening in Fiji - a novel approach in a resource-poor setting [PDF]

, 2012
We designed a pilot study of a training module for nurses to perform rheumatic heart disease echocardiography screening in a resource-poor setting. The aim was to determine whether nurses given brief, focused, basic training in echocardiography could ...
Carapetis, Jonathan R., Colquhoun, Samantha M., Kado, Joseph, May, William, Reeves, Benjamin, Remenyi, Bo, Steer, Andrew, Wilson, Nigel   +7 more
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Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Implications for Closing the Gap: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

Circulation, 2020
The global burden of rheumatic heart disease continues to be significant although it is largely limited to poor and marginalized populations. In most endemic regions, affected patients present with heart failure.
Raman Krishna Kumar, Manuel J Antunes, A. Beaton, M. Mirabel, V. Nkomo, E. Okello, P. Regmi, Bo Remenyi, Karen Sliwa-Hähnle, Liesl Zühlke, Craig A. Sable   +10 more
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No Waning of Pneumococcal Vaccine Responses over Time in People with Inflammatory Arthritis: Findings from a Single Centre Cohort

Vaccines
Background: Vaccination against pneumococcus reduces the risk of infective events, hospitalisation, and death in individual with inflammatory arthritis, particularly in those on immunomodulating therapy who are at risk of worse outcomes from pneumococcal
Deepak Nagra, Katie Bechman, Mark D. Russell, Zijing Yang, Maryam Adas, Sujith Subesinghe, Andrew Rutherford, Edward Alveyn, Samir Patel, Chris Wincup, Arti Mahto, Christopher Baldwin, Ioasaf Karafotias, Andrew Cope, Sam Norton, James Galloway   +15 more
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Increased Efficacy and Tolerability of Pegloticase in Patients With Uncontrolled Gout Co-Treated With Methotrexate: A Retrospective Study

Rheumatology and Therapy, 2020
Introduction Gout is a painful inflammatory condition caused by chronically elevated serum uric acid levels (sUA). When standard urate-lowering therapies fail/are not tolerated, uncontrolled gout (elevated sUA, subcutaneous tophi, chronic gouty arthritis,
John A. Albert, Tony Hosey, Brian LaMoreaux   +2 more
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Factors predicting death and cancer in patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972–2012: a retrospective observational cohort study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
ObjectivesEvidence as to whether or not giant cell arteritis (GCA) confers added risk of cancer or death is conflicting. Our aim was to identify factors predicting death or cancer in a large Norwegian GCA-cohort.MethodsThis is a retrospective ...
Lene Kristin Brekke, Lene Kristin Brekke, Jörg Assmus, Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang, Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang   +4 more
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Contemporary Incidence and Prevalence of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Australia Using Linked Data: The Case for Policy Change

Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background In 2018, the World Health Organization prioritized control of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), including disease surveillance.
J. Katzenellenbogen, D. Bond-Smith, R. Seth, K. Dempsey, J. Cannon, I. Stacey, V. Wade, N. de Klerk, M. Greenland, F. Sanfilippo, A. Brown, J. Carapetis, R. Wyber, L. Nedkoff, J. Hung, D. Bessarab, A. Ralph   +16 more
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Glycosylation and rheumatic disease

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 1998
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic diseases are associated with a significant defect in the galactosyltransferase enzyme that results in a profound change in the galactosylation of immunoglobulin G. This change has been demonstrated to be integrally associated with pathogenic mechanisms associated with inflammation in RA.
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Estimating the burden of rheumatoid arthritis in Africa:A systematic analysis [PDF]

, 2012
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has an estimated worldwide prevalence of 1%. It is one of the leading causes of chronic morbidity in the developed world, but little is known about the disease burden in Africa. RA is often seen as a minor health problem and has
Abdel-Nasser, Abdel-Nasser, Adebajo, Arnett, Beaglehole, Beaglehole, Beighton, Bennett, Brighton, Campbell, Chopra, Darmawan, Goodall, Harpham, Kalla, Kellgren, Lawrence, Masi, McGill, McGill, Meyers, Meyers, Mijiyawa, Mody, Mody, Moolenburgh, Muller, Ropes, Silman, Solomon, Solomon, Symmons, Truswell   +32 more
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