Rheumatology

Kimme L. Hyrich, MD, Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit at University of Manchester, discusses the risk of rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy developing solid cancers.

Shreyasee Amin, MD, Department of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, discusses the increased risk of fracture in men and women with rheumatoid arthritis.

More than half of young women diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have fewer children than they had hoped for.

A new biomarker is associated with osteoarthritis severity at the hip but not the knee.

Adding the biomarker anti-apolipoprotein A-1 IgG (anti-apoA-1) to the 10-year Framingham cardiovascular risk score (FRS) significantly improves prediction of cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Patients with fibromyalgia who are severely obese have more severe symptoms and lower quality of life.

Compared with healthy control subjects, patients with rheumatoid arthritis have reduced intracranial volumes and structural changes in the subcortical gray matter, but do not have localized cortical gray matter atrophy, according to research published in the February issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.

More effective management of rheumatoid arthritis with medication may be contributing to a decline in the need for joint surgery in patients with the condition, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

Overweight and obese adults are significantly more likely to have lumbar disc degeneration compared with those who have a normal body mass index, according to a study published online Jan. 27 in Arthritis & Rheumatism.

Glucocorticoid therapy appears to help reduce the amount of citrullination in the joints of rheumatoid arthritis patients, researchers have found.

More than two in five adults with rheumatoid arthritis are physically inactive, to the detriment of their health, researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine report in a study published online today in Arthritis Care & Research.

Doctors may be halting use of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) medications too early in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who are set to undergo surgery, researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City have found.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients have an increased risk of venous thromboembolism, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

Treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis patients with tumor necrosis factor antagonists produces no reduction in the risk of acute coronary syndrome, researchers in Sweden have found.

The US Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review a New Drug Application for tofacitinib from Pfizer Inc.

Based on a 12-year longitudinal study, researchers have found that 63% of women over 50 report persistent, incident, or intermittent knee pain.

Ardea Biosciences announced on Monday that it would soon begin the first of four planned Phase 3 clinical trials of its experimental gout drug lesinurad.

A strictly controlled diet allowed obese knee osteoarthritis patients to lose weight while increasing levels of key nutrients and maintaining total bone mineral content and bone mineral density, researchers in Denmark have found.

Death rates are somewhat higher for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, especially from respiratory diseases, though incidence rates of malignancies are not significantly different from the general population, researchers at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, have discovered.

Soccer as well as elite long-distance running, weightlifting, and wrestling appear to increase one’s risk of developing knee osteoarthritis, while other sports do not, a review of past studies finds.