Showing papers in "Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism in 2023"

TL;DR: In this article , Carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA IMT) and SWE values were measured and the atherosclerotic plaques were recorded.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the relationship between categorical fibromyalgia, the polysymptomatic distress (PSD) scale, and clinical variables, and found that the changes across PSD categories were linear and large.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared the prevalence of carotid plaques in men and women with the same level of CV risk stratified according to the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE).

TL;DR: In this paper , a two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) study was performed to estimate the causal relationship between genetically predicted depression (170,756 cases, 329,443 controls) and risk of chronic widespread pain (6,914 cases, 242,929 controls).

TL;DR: The Omicron variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) had milder clinical impacts than prior variants as discussed by the authors and showed a lower rate of COVID19-related hospitalization (3.9% vs. 1.3% for the Delta vs. OmicRON accordingly, p<0.001) and COVID-2019-related death.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared humoral and cell-mediated immunity before and after a 3rd dose of mRNA COVID vaccine in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.

TL;DR: Tocilizumab tapered over a two-year period was effective to induce and maintain remission in GCA patients as discussed by the authors , and the authors evaluated the feasibility of tapering and withdrawal in patients with GCA.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a systematic literature review to evaluate the impact of race on APO in women with rheumatic diseases and found that there was a greater propensity for APO among women with systemic lupus erythematosus compared to their white counterparts.

TL;DR: The OMERACT Foot and Ankle Working Group (OMERACT) as mentioned in this paper developed a core outcome set for use in clinical trials and longitudinal observational studies in rheumatology.

TL;DR: IgG4-related CAI was confirmed by imaging evidence of arterial or periarterial inflammation in any coronary artery as discussed by the authors , which is a vascular distribution about which little is known in IgG4related disease.

TL;DR: In this paper , a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was performed to assess the causal associations between AILDs and RA, and the results of the MR analysis were further validated by sensitivity analyses utilizing the leave-one-out approach.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the prevalence, incidence, survival and contribution on mortality of major central nervous system involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe the incidence of pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) among patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) or polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR).

TL;DR: In this paper , the potential impact of treatments for and on both diseases is discussed. But, the authors do not consider the impact of metabolic or inflammatory pathways on PD and NAFLD.

TL;DR: In this article , the burden of exercise intolerance in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and explore the disease features that contribute to impaired exercise capacity (measured as peak oxygen uptake, peak VO2) to provide novel mechanistic insights into the causes of physical disability in SSc.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared the relapses of patients with GCA-associated aortitis according to their CT-angiography (CTA) and/or on FDG-PET/CT.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors identified the prevalence of concomitant diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome and connective tissue disorders (hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), Hypermobility Spectrum disorders (HSD), and generalized joint hypermobility (GJH)) in adults and their shared symptomatic manifestations using a systematic review.

TL;DR: There are emerging efforts internationally to develop evidence-based models focused on non-surgical primary care OA management as discussed by the authors , which have been developed and/or evaluated to identify and describe the extent, nature, characteristics, and impact of primary care based models of care (MoCs) for osteoarthritis.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature concerning temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) in immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRDs) of the adult was conducted in this article .

TL;DR: In this paper , the efficacy, toxicity and glucocorticoid (GC)-sparing effects of intravenous cyclophosphamide (iv CYC) with other immunosuppressive regimes as the induction treatment for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy-Related Interstitial Lung Disease (IIM-ILD).

TL;DR: A systematic review as discussed by the authors evaluated the state of current studies of metabolomic biomarkers that can aid in the diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis using PubMed and Web of Science using the search terms "ostearthritis" and "biomarkers" and 'metabolomics".

TL;DR: For example, this paper investigated potential causal effects of vitamin D on composite and individual autoimmune diseases using Mendelian randomization using data from 332,984 participants of the UK Biobank of whom 23,089 had at least one autoimmune disease defined using ICD code and/or self-report.

TL;DR: In this paper , the relationship between GI microbial composition and SSc-GI symptoms was evaluated and compared between SSc patients adhering to a low versus non-low fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharide, monosacscharides and polyols (FODMAP) diet.

TL;DR: In this article , the effect of perioperative exposure to TNF inhibitors (TNFi) on the long-term survival of total hip arthroplasty (THA) in inflammatory arthritis patients from a large regional register of ARO procedures (RIPO) was investigated.

TL;DR: The 2019 ACR/EULAR classification criteria had a sensitivity of 76.6% (95% CI: 73.8% to 79.4%) and a specificity of 98.0% (96.0%-99.4%), an AUC of 0.873 (0.857-0.889) in the overall cohort as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: In this paper , Carotid artery intima-media thickness (CCA IMT) and SWE values were measured and the atherosclerotic plaques were recorded.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize current evidence on vitamin D status in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) with a particular focus on disease activity as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: A systematic review of EMBASE, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Database of Clinical Trials (CENTRAL) to identify all placebo-controlled phase III RCTs of biologic/targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) in peripheral psoriatic arthritis (PsA) published up to 1 June 2022 as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , the frequency of sudden cardiac death (SCD), arrhythmia and conduction defects in SSc was estimated to be 3.3% annually, at least 10-fold higher than general population estimates.