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Ultrasensitive serum interferon-α quantification during SLE remission identifies patients at risk for relapse

1 Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupement Hospitalier Pitié–Salpêtrière, French National Referral Center for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Antibody ...
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Gout: why is this curable disease so seldom cured?

3 Department of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 4 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Alicante ...
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EULAR definition of arthralgia suspicious for progression to rheumatoid arthritis

Correspondence to Dr Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; AvdHelm{at}lumc.nl Background ...
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Diagnosis and management of adult onset Still’s disease

1 Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07101, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell ...
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Serum concentrations of 25-OH vitamin D in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are inversely related to disease activity: is it time to routinely supplement ...

2 Department of Rheumatology, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Sciences Centre, Debrecen, Hungary 3 Division of Clinical Immunology, Third Department of Medicine, University of Debrecen ...
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Psoriasis assessment tools in clinical trials

1 Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ...
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Glucosamine and chondroitin for knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating single and combination regimens

1 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia 2 Graduate School of Medicine, Notre Dame University, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 3 Covance Pty ...
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International recommendations for the assessment of autoantibodies to cellular antigens referred to as anti-nuclear antibodies

16 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 17 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Orebro and Orebro ...
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A disease activity score for polymyalgia rheumatica

Objective: To develop a composite score for measurement of disease activity in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and assess its internal and external validity. Methods: A PMR activity score (AS) was ...
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Influence of geolocation and ethnicity on the phenotypic expression of primary Sjögren's syndrome at diagnosis in 8310 patients: a cross-sectional study from the Big Data ...

Objectives To analyse the influence of geolocation and ethnicity on the clinical presentation of primary Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) at diagnosis. Methods The Big Data Sjögren Project Consortium is an ...
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Assessment of outcome in ankylosing spondylitis: an extended radiographic scoring system

1 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, St Maartenshospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Medical ...
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Distinct immune modulatory roles of regulatory T cells in gut versus joint inflammation in TNF-driven spondyloarthritis

8 University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany Correspondence to Professor Koen Venken, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Rheumatology Unit), ...