Objectives The oral microbiome plays a critical role in modulating systemic inflammation, partly through its interactions ...

Objectives Medication adherence is a key determinant of treatment effectiveness in chronic inflammatory diseases but data in ...

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

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

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

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

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterised by joint involvement, significant impact on quality of life and frequently linked with obesity, metabolic syndrome and ...

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

Objectives Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is classified as a subtype of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). A recent genome-wide association ...

Background For rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the HLA-DRB1 ‘shared epitope’ (SE) allele has been proposed as a predictive biomarker for the effectiveness of mainly abatacept and other biologic ...