Objective The primary objective was to assess sex differences in long-term functional deterioration and permanent work ...

Objective Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a heterogenous group of conditions with substantial morbidity but ...

Objective Recent advances in giant cell arteritis (GCA) management aim to reduce glucocorticoid (GC). We described changes in ...

Objective To evaluate the diagnostic pathway of patients affected by large vessel vasculitis (LVV) and to determine factors ...

Background Adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a systemic autoinflammatory disorder lacking a gold-standard diagnostic ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare, heterogeneous, systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease characterised by vasculopathy, ...

Objectives To assess clinical effectiveness, safety and in vivo effects on cytokines, chemokines and low-density neutrophils (LDNs) in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated ...

An open access rheumatology journal publishing research on rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders and connective tissue diseases. An official journal of EULAR.

Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis is the most common form of secondary osteoporosis and the first cause in young people. Bone loss and increased rate of fractures occur early after the initiation of ...

Objective To evaluate chest high-resolution CT (HRCT) images in idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) using both quantitative CT and visual assessment. Methods HRCT images from a single-centre ...

Background Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 100 loci associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility, the causal genes and biological mechanisms ...

Background Knowledge of the role of IgA isotype autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is lacking. We aimed to explore associations between serum IgA autoantibody profiles and SLE ...