The effects of educational status and comorbidity on routine assessment of patient index data 3 and its correlation with disease activity score 28 and clinical disease activity ind... by Kubilay Sahin, Cem Ozisler, Nesibe Karahan Yesil, Fulya Dortbas, Ahmet Omma, Zeynep Ozbalkan Aslar, Yasar Karaaslan

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Fifty-Two-Week Results of Clinical and Imaging Assessments of a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis Complicated by Systemic Sclerosis with Interstitial Pneumonia and Type 1 Diabetes despite Multiple Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug Therapy That Was Successfully Treated with Baricitinib: A Novel Case Report by Yuya Fujita, Masao Nawata, Atsushi Nagayasu, Kazuki Someya, Kazuyoshi Saito, Yoshiya Tanaka

“…Baricitinib is a Janus kinase 1/2 (JAK1/2) inhibitor used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. A 71-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis complicated by systemic sclerosis and type 1 diabetes that were resistant to multiple disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs started treatment with baricitinib. …”
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Characterization of the Active Ingredient and Prediction of the Potential Mechanism of Dahuoluo Pill via Mass Spectrometry with the Network Pharmacology Method by Haoran Xu, Yuelin Bi, Xin Feng, Jiaqi Wang, Gengyuan Yu, Tonghua Zhang, Tianyi Li, Xuhua Gao, Runhua Liu, Yu Sun, Hao Wu, Linlin Fang, Chenning Zhang, Yikun Sun

“…The Dahuoluo pill (DHLP) is a classic Chinese patent medicine used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions. However, there has been no research on the chemical components of DHLP and the mechanisms by which it ameliorates rheumatoid arthritis. …”
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Insight into Neutrophil Extracellular Traps through Systematic Evaluation of Citrullination and Peptidylarginine Deiminases by Caitlyn L. Holmes, Daeun Shim, John Kernien, Chad J. Johnson, Jeniel E. Nett, Miriam A. Shelef

“…In rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune inflammatory arthritis, citrullinated proteins are targeted by autoantibodies and thus thought to drive disease. …”
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Evaluation of Tele-rheumatology during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Asian Population: A Pilot Study by Amit Sandhu, Amit Agarwal, Paramvir Kaur, Meenakshi Sharma, Harnoor Sra, Manvi Singh, Nishant Jaiswal, Anil Chauhan, Anju Gupta, Meenu Singh

“…Objective. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune condition associated with a potential for deformities. …”
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Poor quality of life in indian ankylosing spondylitis patients by Latika Gupta, Sakir Ahmed, Gautam Dhar Choudhury, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal

“…In all 4 domains of WHO-BREF, scores for AS were significantly less as compared to healthy controls [P < 0.0001] or even to rheumatoid arthritis [P < 0.01]. Conclusion: Indian AS patients have poorer quality of life than patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy individuals, possibly due to poor control of disease activity.…”
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Do cytokines play a role in the transition from acute to chronic musculoskeletal pain? by Andrea Ebersberger, Hans-Georg Schaible

“…Since biologics such as blockers of TNF or IL-6 can attenuate inflammation and pain in a subset of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the question arises to what extent cytokines are involved in the generation of pain in human musculoskeletal diseases. …”
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Association of COMT Val158Met Polymorphism with Fibromyalgia in Khartoum State, Sudan by Safaa Mamoun Abdelmageid, Faisal Mousa Alamir, Hassan Yousif Abdelrahman, Hind Mohamed Abushama

“…The mean age of the rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy individuals was 31.3 ± 7.5 and 38.6 ± 11.2, respectively. …”
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Characterization of the Hypercitrullination Reaction in Human Neutrophils and Other Leukocytes by Yebin Zhou, Tiziana Di Pucchio, Gary P. Sims, Nanette Mittereder, Tomas Mustelin

“…Autoantibodies against citrullinated proteins are diagnostic for rheumatoid arthritis. However, the molecular mechanisms driving protein citrullination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis remain poorly understood. …”
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Genetic insights into the risk of hip osteoarthritis on stroke: A single-variable and multivariable Mendelian randomization. by Zhengze Zhang, Yanan Lian, Yuewen He, Hao Liu, Kai Meng, Yong Wang, Wuhua Ma

“…In Multivariable Mendelian randomization, factors such as cigarettes per day, alcoholic drinks per week, hypertension, body mass index, type 2 diabetes, C-reactive protein, rheumatoid arthritis were incorporated to further account for the independent causal effects of multiple correlated exposures.…”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in a Patient Receiving Tofacitinib: A Case Report and Literature Review by Georgio Medawar, Joseph Chahrouri, Rabih Said

“…She then remained in remission for rheumatoid arthritis and within the expected milestone outcome for her CML. …”
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Examine the Role of Psychological Resilience in Predicting Social and Professional Performance in Patients with Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, and Rheumatism by Ahmad S Alsheikh Al, Ashraf Alqudah

“…Approximately 44% of participants were diagnosed with diabetes, 28% with rheumatoid arthritis, and around 25% with multiple sclerosis. …”
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The Role of Intracellular Organisms in the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Arthritis by Animesh Singh, Sarah Karrar

“…It encompasses a spectrum of disorders ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to ankylosing spondylitis. In these conditions, for reasons that are poorly understood, the immune system raises an inflammatory response within the joint space. …”
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Assessment of liver fibrosis by acoustic radiation force impulse elastography in rheumatic disease patients on long-term methotrexate treatment by Arindam Nandy Roy, Gayatri Senapathy, Vijay Kumar Bongu, Yarram Ashok Kumar, Syeda Sana Fatima, Regina Lata Thadigiri

“…Study Method: We reviewed the medical records of rheumatoid arthritis patients who were administered methotrexate for more than 2 years. …”
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Mechanism of action of 5-arninosalicylic acid by N. A. Punchard, S. M. Greenfield, R. P. H. Thompson

“…SASP is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. However whether the therapeutic properties of SASP are due to the intact molecule, the 5-ASA or sulphapyridine components is unknown. …”
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Association between long-term exposure to air pollution and immune-mediated diseases: a population-based cohort study by Giovanni Adami, Angelo Fassio, Giovanni Orsolini, Davide Gatti, Maurizio Rossini, Ombretta Viapiana, Camilla Benini, Elena Fracassi, Giorgio Cattani, Marco Pontalti, Eugenia Bertoldo

“…Exposure to PM10 was associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis; exposure to PM2.5 was associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis, connective tissue diseases (CTDs) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).Conclusion Long-term exposure to air pollution was associated with higher risk of developing autoimmune diseases, in particular rheumatoid arthritis, CTDs and IBD. …”
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Sjögren’s Syndrome: Concerted Triggering of Sicca Conditions by Zygmunt Mackiewicz, Justyna Mażul, Ieva Narkevičiūtė, Irena Dumalakienė, Irena Butrimienė, Rita Vilienė, Indrė Stankevičienė, Diana Mieliauskaitė

“…Materials and Methods. 126 patients (119 women and 7 men) were grouped into four groups: (1) patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS), (2) patients with secondary Sjögren’s syndrome due to rheumatoid arthritis (sSS), (3) patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and (4) patients with nonautoimmune sicca syndrome (nSS). …”
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Peptidylarginine Deiminase 2 in Murine Antiviral and Autoimmune Antibody Responses by Aisha M. Mergaert, Michael F. Denny, Brock Kingstad-Bakke, Mandar Bawadekar, S. Janna Bashar, Thomas F. Warner, Marulasiddappa Suresh, Miriam A. Shelef

“…The peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs) and the citrullinated proteins that they generate have key roles in innate immunity and rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory arthritis with antibodies that target citrullinated proteins. …”
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Gender and Ocular Manifestations of Connective Tissue Diseases and Systemic Vasculitides by Maria M. Choudhary, Rula A. Hajj-Ali, Careen Y. Lowder

“…The other extra-articular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis affect women three times more commonly than men. …”
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