Objective: To create minimal disease activity (MDA) criteria for psoriatic arthritis (PsA). With recent therapeutic advances, this is now a goal for treatment and may represent a measure to compare ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether continued methotrexate treatment increases the risk of postoperative infections or of surgical complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) within one year ...

a Academic Ziekenhuis Leiden, Stafcentrum Reumatologie, Leiden, The Netherlands, b Division of Immunology and Allergy, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland Professor F C Breedveld, Academic ...

1 Flinders University Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia 2 Physiotherapy Department, Repatriation General Hospital, South Australia ...

562 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TG6 2S2 Whiplash associated disorders have become an international medicolegal and social dilemma. Physicians are ...

15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

2 Rheumatology Division, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Autonoma University Madrid, Madrid, Spain Correspondence to Dr Olga Sanchez Pernaute, Rheumatology Division, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz University Hospital ...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease encountered throughout Europe. A task force for the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Trials met in 1998 to determine the ...

Objectives Dietary fibre reduces body weight and inflammation both of which are linked with knee osteoarthritis (OA). We examined the association between fibre intake and risk of knee OA. Methods We ...

Background: Chronic low back pain (LBP), the leading symptom of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and undifferentiated axial spondyloarthritis (SpA), precedes the development of radiographic sacroiliitis, ...

1 Bone Research Group, Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand ...

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease of the joint occurring in elderly population. According to World Health Organization, its worldwide prevalence ranges from 11,8% to 12,7%.