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Proinflammatory phenotype of B10 and B10pro cells elicited by TNF-α in rheumatoid arthritis

2 State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China 3 Department of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine, School of ...
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Preliminary classification criteria for the cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis

10 Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bologna, S Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy 11 Section of Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human ...
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SGLT2 inhibitors alleviated podocyte damage in lupus nephritis by decreasing inflammation and enhancing autophagy

Correspondence to Dr Yuan-yuan Qi, Department of Nephrology, 1. Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou Henan, 450052 P. R. China 2. Zhengzhou ...
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Gout risk in adults with pre-diabetes initiating metformin

Objective Despite the strong association between gout and pre-diabetes, the role of metformin in gout among individuals with pre-diabetes remains uncertain. We compared the incidence rates of gout in ...
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Disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis and kidney function decline: a large prospective registry study

Introduction Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common comorbidity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The association of longitudinal RA disease activity with long-term kidney function has remained ...
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2013 classification criteria for systemic sclerosis: an American college of rheumatology/European league against rheumatism collaborative initiative

41 St. Joseph's Health Care London and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Objective The 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for systemic sclerosis ...
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Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS): 2018 update of the nomenclature for disease activity states

Correspondence to Dr Pedro M Machado, Centre for Rheumatology and MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, UK; p.machado{at}ucl.ac.uk Contributors PMM drafted ...
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Hormone replacement therapy and mid-term implant survival following knee or hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study

Objectives Osteolysis and subsequent prosthesis loosening is the most common cause for revision following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA). Hormone replacement therapy ...
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Impact of allopurinol on risk of myocardial infarction

11 Université Paris 7, UFR médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Lariboisière, Fédération de Rhumatologie, Paris, Cedex 10, France 12 Inserm U1132, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, ...
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Exploring the effect on primary endpoints in trials testing targeted therapy interventions for rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-epidemiological study on the appropriate use of a ...

Objectives To explore which core domain is best associated with the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20% response in trials assessing the effect of targeted interventions in rheumatoid arthritis ...
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The risk of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis in rheumatoid arthritis: a UK population-based outpatient cohort study

1 Section of Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Arthritis ...
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Evaluation and prediction of relapse risk in stable systemic lupus erythematosus patients after glucocorticoid withdrawal (PRESS): an open-label, multicentre, non-inferiority ...

3 National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing, China Objectives To explore the relapse rate after glucocorticoid (GC) withdrawal with or without ...