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Spotlight on Sjögren’s: a patient perspective on burden of illness and unmet needs – results from a real-world survey

Objective Sjögren’s is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterised by dryness symptoms (eyes, mouth, skin), alongside ...
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Patient-tailored training programme on cardiorespiratory fitness, trunk strength and mobility leads to significantly better outcomes in individuals with axial spondyloarth…

Background Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) impairs trunk strength, mobility and cardiorespiratory fitness. Despite exercise ...
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Practical insights for the clinical implementation of the EULAR recommendations for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Objectives The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) recommendations for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis provide important guidance for ...
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Original research: Prevalence and anatomical distribution of MRI lesions in axSpA and differences between patients with and without peripheral involvement: results from the ASAS classification cohort ...
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Associations between social determinants of health and long-term outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus: a nationwide population-based cohort study in Sweden

Objectives To examine the association between social determinants of health (SDH) and outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in a European setting. Methods We conducted a nationwide, register ...
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Efficacy and safety of upadacitinib as monotherapy or combined with elsubrutinib for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: results through 104 weeks in a long-term ...

Objectives This 1-year long-term extension (LTE) study (NCT04451772) followed the 48-week phase 2 SLEek study (NCT03978520) that evaluated upadacitinib (a Janus kinase inhibitor) alone or combined ...
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Mesenchymal stromal cells ameliorate systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease via PD-1/PD-L1 signalling axis

Objective Systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is characterised by progressive pulmonary fibrosis. This study aimed to investigate the role of programmed death-1 ...
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Imaging in diagnosis, monitoring and outcome prediction of large vessel vasculitis: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis informing the 2023 update of the EULAR ...

Objectives To update the evidence on imaging for diagnosis, monitoring and outcome prediction in large vessel vasculitis (LVV) to inform the 2023 update of the European Alliance of Associations for ...
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Association between sinusitis and incident rheumatic diseases: a population-based study

Objectives To determine whether antecedent sinusitis is associated with incident rheumatic disease. Methods This population-based case–control study included all individuals meeting classification ...
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Prevalence and anatomical distribution of MRI lesions in axSpA and differences between patients with and without peripheral involvement: results from the ASAS classification cohort

Objective To evaluate the prevalence and anatomical distribution of inflammatory and structural MRI lesions in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and compare these between patients with isolated axial ...
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Pathogenesis of ischaemic and non-ischaemic heart diseases in rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterised by a chronic inflammatory condition of the joints, but the comorbidities of RA predominantly contribute to the reduced lifespan associated with this disease.