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  1. Patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA) are at increased risk of incident cardiovascular events. Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) have shown a protective effect against incident car...

    Authors: Oh Chan Kwon, Hye Sun Lee, So Young Jeon and Min-Chan Park
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:174
  2. CXC chemokine CXCL12 is involved in the pathological development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) through abnormal migration of peripheral immune cells in the joint. Although low dose methotrexate (MTX) is clinica...

    Authors: Lei Ding, Daniel H. Park, Bo Gao, Lingyuan Wu, Meizhang Li, Haitham Abedelhakim and Ming Zhang
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:173
  3. to evaluate over a 48-month follow-up period the: 1) long-term effectiveness and safety; 2) drug retention rate (DRR); 3) impact of comorbidities and bDMARDs line on MDA and DAPSA remission/low disease activit...

    Authors: Roberta Ramonda, Mariagrazia Lorenzin, Maria Sole Chimenti, Fabiola Atzeni, Angelo Semeraro, Salvatore D’Angelo, Carlo Selmi, Augusta Ortolan, Antonio Marchesoni, Maria Manara, Michele Maria Luchetti Gentiloni, Leonardo Santo, Carlo Salvarani, Alberto Cauli, Maurizio Rossini, Giorgio Amato…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:172
  4. Based on the recent evidence of IL-1 inhibition in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and concomitant type 2 diabetes (T2D), we evaluated the synovial tissue expression of IL-1 related genes in relationsh...

    Authors: Piero Ruscitti, Damiano Currado, Felice Rivellese, Marta Vomero, Luca Navarini, Paola Cipriani, Costantino Pitzalis and Roberto Giacomelli
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:171
  5. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are essential for maintenance of vascular homeostasis and stability, key processes in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the role and phenotypi...

    Authors: Carlos Rafael-Vidal, Sara Martínez-Ramos, Beatriz Malvar-Fernández, Irene Altabás-González, Coral Mouriño, Pablo Pazos-López, Arturo Fraga-Bau, José María Pego Reigosa and Samuel García
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:170
  6. Little is known about the symptoms at the onset of Sjögren’s Disease (SjD) and it is unclear whether SjD starts with characteristic symptoms that could be differentiated from dryness of other origin (sicca syn...

    Authors: Angelika Lackner, Barbara Dreo, Josef Hermann, Sabine Zenz, Johannes Fessler, Jens Thiel and Martin Helmut Stradner
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:169
  7. Untreated acute ankle sprains often result in chronic ankle instability (CAI) and can ultimately lead to the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA). At present, a typical animal model of ankle ins...

    Authors: Yan Du, Shuo Wang, Fanlei Yang, Hao Xu, Yu Cheng and Jia Yu
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:168
  8. Small extracellular vesicles (sEV) derived from synovial fibroblasts (SF) represent a novel molecular mechanism regulating cartilage erosion in osteoarthritis (OA). However, a comprehensive evaluation using di...

    Authors: Sabha Asghar, Gary J. Litherland, John J. Cole, Iain B. McInnes, R. M. D. Meek, John C. Lockhart, Carl S. Goodyear and Anne Crilly
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:167
  9. This study investigated whether serum syndecan1 at diagnosis reflects activity at diagnosis and predicts poor outcomes during follow-up in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated va...

    Authors: Taejun Yoon, Jang Woo Ha, Jung Yoon Pyo, Eunhee Ko, Sung Soo Ahn, Jason Jungsik Song, Yong-Beom Park and Sang-Won Lee
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:166
  10. The aims of this study were to suggest patient-adjusted optical spectral transmission (OST) cut-off values for the first time and to develop clinical models that predict the probability of an early rheumatoid ...

    Authors: Konstantinos Triantafyllias, Khalid K. Altamimi, Florian Schederecker and Andreas Schwarting
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:165
  11. Systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) related pulmonary disease is highly prevalent, with variable clinical presentation and behavior, and thus is associated with poor outcomes and negatively impacts ...

    Authors: Yukai Wang, Shaoqi Chen, Shaoyu Zheng, Zexuan Zhou, Weijin Zhang, Guangzhou Du, Angelina Mikish, Barbara Ruaro, Cosimo Bruni, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Luna Gargani, Marco Matucci-Cerinic and Daniel E Furst
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:164
  12. To investigate the efficacy and safety of belimumab in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a real-world setting and provide a valuable reference for clinical treatment.

    Authors: Zhaohui Su, Chunyi Zhang, Congcong Gao, Chaoying Li, Ruxv Li and Zhaohui Zheng
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:163
  13. Chronic pain and inflammation are common features of rheumatic conditions such as Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) and Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA), often needing prolonged medication treatment for effective manag...

    Authors: Damiano Currado, Francesca Saracino, Piero Ruscitti, Annalisa Marino, Ilenia Pantano, Marta Vomero, Onorina Berardicurti, Viktoriya Pavlych, Claudio Di Vico, Francesco Caso, Luisa Costa, Marco Tasso, Federica Camarda, Francesca Misceo, Francesco De Vincenzo, Addolorata Corrado…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:162
  14. The current EULAR definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (D2T-RA) identifies patients with active disease refractory to multiple treatments at a single time point, without considering the persis...

    Authors: Gilberto Cincinelli, Gabriella Maioli, Cristina Posio, Ennio Giulio Favalli, Francesca Ingegnoli and Roberto Caporali
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:161
  15. The Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program (MLSP), a population-based retrospective registry of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), was used to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular disease ...

    Authors: Daniel P. Joyce, Jeffrey S. Berger, Allison Guttmann, Ghadeer Hasan, Jill P. Buyon, H. Michael Belmont, Jane Salmon, Anca Askanase, Joan Bathon, Laura Geraldino-Pardilla, Yousaf Ali, Ellen M. Ginzler, Chaim Putterman, Caroline Gordon, Charles G. Helmick, Kamil E. Barbour…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:160
  16. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the quintessential autoimmune disease, as it is characterized by hyperactivity of CD4+ T cells and subsequently drives lupus pathology. Follicular helper T (TFH) cells play a...

    Authors: Tipanan Khunsri, Pongsakorn Thawornpan, Pachara Tianpothong, Thanitta Suangtamai, Pintip Ngamjanyaporn, Chaniya Leepiyasakulchai, Kittikorn Wangriatisak, Prapaporn Pisitkun and Patchanee Chootong
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:159
  17. Anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR) autoantibodies are one of the myositis-specific antibodies which is associated with immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM). However, the relati...

    Authors: Hongxia Yang, Chao Sun, Lifang Ye, Yuetong Xu, Sang Lin, Qinglin Peng, Guochun Wang and Xin Lu
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:158
  18. Equivalent efficacy and comparable pharmacokinetic, immunogenicity, and safety profiles of the biosimilar BAT1806/BIIB800 and reference tocilizumab (TCZ) in participants with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arth...

    Authors: Xiaomei Leng, Piotr Leszczyński, Slawomir Jeka, Shengyun Liu, Huaxiang Liu, Malgorzata Miakisz, Jieruo Gu, Lali Kilasonia, Mykola Stanislavchuk, Xiaolei Yang, Yinbo Zhou, Qingfeng Dong, Marian Mitroiu, Janet Addison, Mourad F. Rezk and Xiaofeng Zeng
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:157
  19. Elevated serum immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) concentrations are one of the characteristic findings in IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD). This study investigated the frequency of elevated serum IgG4 levels and associat...

    Authors: Shunsuke Tsuge, Hiroshi Fujii, Mami Tamai, Hiromasa Tsujiguchi, Misaki Yoshida, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Yoshinori Takahashi, Akari Takeji, Shigeto Horita, Yuhei Fujisawa, Takahiro Matsunaga, Takeshi Zoshima, Ryo Nishioka, Hiromi Nuka, Satoshi Hara, Yukiko Tani…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:156
  20. To analyse clinical outcomes of a non-medical switch from originator adalimumab (ADA) to its ABP501 biosimilar (ABP) over 6 months in patients with inflammatory rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) in rela...

    Authors: Imke Redeker, Stefan Moustakis, Styliani Tsiami, Xenofon Baraliakos, David Kiefer, Ioana Andreica, Björn Buehring, Jürgen Braun and Uta Kiltz
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:155
  21. Authors: Hermine I Brunner, Grant S Schulert, Alyssa Sproles, Sherry Thornton, Gabriel Vega Cornejo, Jordi Antón, Ruben Cuttica, Michael Henrickson, Ivan Foeldvari, Daniel J Kingsbury, Margarita Askelson, Jinqi Liu, Sumanta Mukherjee, Robert L Wong, Daniel J Lovell, Alberto Martini…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:154

    The original article was published in Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:125

  22. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of developing serious infections (SIs) vs. individuals without RA; efforts to predict SIs in this patient group are ongoing. We assessed the abili...

    Authors: Merete Lund Hetland, Anja Strangfeld, Gianluca Bonfanti, Dimitrios Soudis, J. Jasper Deuring and Roger A. Edwards
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:153
  23. Anti-Ro-52 antibodies have been associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD) in various autoimmune diseases. However, their role in ILD among patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) is relat...

    Authors: Chia-Tse Weng, Tang-Hsiu Huang, Chun-Hsin Wu and Yuan-Ting Sun
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:152
  24. To investigate the risk factors of renal tubular acidosis (RTA) in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) and create a personalized nomogram for predicting pSS-RTA patients.

    Authors: Yanzhen Zeng, Runzhi Liu, Shuyi Li, Jingwen Wei, Fei Luo, Yongkang Chen and Dongmei Zhou
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:151
  25. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) often exhibits suboptimal treatment response despite early diagnosis and treatment. This study aimed to analyze Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (ERA) synovial biopsies through histology an...

    Authors: Francesco Natalucci, Clément Triaille, Cécile Van Mullem, Tatiana Sokolova, Emilie Sapart, Laurent Meric de Bellefon, Adrien Nzeusseu, Christine Galant, Bernard Lauwerys and Patrick Durez
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:150
  26. We have previously reported using gene-deficient mice that the interleukin (IL)-23p19 subunit is required for the development of innate immune-driven arthritic pain and disease. We aimed to explore here, using...

    Authors: Kevin M.-C. Lee, Tanya Lupancu, Leon Chang, Carl L. Manthey, Martha Zeeman, Anne M. Fourie and John A. Hamilton
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:148
  27. Differentiating between degenerative disc disease (DDD), diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) represents a diagnostic challenge in patients with low back pain (L...

    Authors: Nelly Ziade, Melanie Udod, Nikolaos Kougkas, Styliani Tsiami and Xenofon Baraliakos
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:147
  28. IL-40 is a novel cytokine associated with autoimmune connective tissue disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or Sjögren syndrome. We have previously shown an accumulation of IL-40 in the RA joint and its...

    Authors: L. Andrés Cerezo, A. Navrátilová, M. Kuklová, A. Prokopcová, J. Baloun, T. Kropáčková, D. Veigl, S. Popelka, P. Fulín, R. Ballay, K. Pavelka, J. Vencovský and L. Šenolt
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:146
  29. Adipose tissue has been associated with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) pathogenesis, but the longitudinal changes in adipose tissue with KOA progression have not been carefully evaluated. This study aimed to determ...

    Authors: Kwanghoon Lee, Marina Banuls-Mirete, Alecio F. Lombardi, Alexander I.B. Posis, Eric Y. Chang, Nancy E. Lane and Monica Guma
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:145
  30. To develop an inflammation-related immunohistochemistry marker-based algorithm that confers higher diagnostic ability for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) than IIM-related histopathologic features.

    Authors: Byeongzu Ghang, So Hye Nam, Wonho Choi, Hwa Jung Kim, Jungsun Lee, Doo-Ho Lim, Soo Min Ahn, Ji Seon Oh, Seokchan Hong, Yong-Gil Kim, Chang-Keun Lee, Jinseok Kim, Bin Yoo and Soo Jeong Nam
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:144
  31. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib monotherapy versus methotrexate (MTX) monotherapy over 5 years among MTX-naïve patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the l...

    Authors: Ronald van Vollenhoven, Vibeke Strand, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Nilmo Chávez, Pablo Mannucci Walter, Atul Singhal, Jerzy Swierkot, Nasser Khan, Xianwei Bu, Yihan Li, Sara K. Penn, Heidi S. Camp and Jacob Aelion
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:143
  32. Inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) are often associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD). The aim of the present study was to establish a correlation between the findings on HRCT and the immunological b...

    Authors: Tobias Hoffmann, Ulf Teichgräber, Martin Förster, Peter Oelzner, Claus Kroegel, Diane Renz, Tobias Weise, Joachim Böttcher, P. Christian Schulze, Gunter Wolf, Marcus Franz and Alexander Pfeil
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:142
  33. In spondyloarthritides (SpA) and fibromyalgia (FM), patients suffer from generalized pain. The impact of FM on PRO validated in SpA has not been systematically studied.

    Authors: Styliani Tsiami, Piet Dukatz, Maria Gkelaki, Philipp Sewerin, Uta Kiltz and Xenofon Baraliakos
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:141
  34. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients sometimes exhibit different levels of improvement in health assessment questionnaire-disability index (HAQ-DI) and subjective pain visual analogue score (VAS) even after achi...

    Authors: Sae Ochi, Koshiro Sonomoto, Shingo Nakayamada and Yoshiya Tanaka
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:140
  35. Neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) contribute to the vascular complications of multiple diseases, but their role in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is understudied. We sought to test the hypothesis...

    Authors: Neda Kortam, Wenying Liang, Claire Shiple, Suiyuan Huang, Rosemary Gedert, James St. Clair, Cyrus Sarosh, Caroline Foster, Pei-Suen Tsou, John Varga, Jason S. Knight, Dinesh Khanna and Ramadan A. Ali
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:139
  36. Define the prevalence and location of inflammatory and structural lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA) with ...

    Authors: David Kiefer, Mina Soltani, Parham Damirchi, Uta Kiltz, Bjoern Buehring, Ioana Andreica, Philipp Sewerin and Xenofon Baraliakos
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:138
  37. To determine the risk factors for mortality in Korean patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) in comparison to patients with RA but without ILD (RA-nonILD).

    Authors: Yeo-Jin Song, Hyoungyoung Kim, Soo-Kyung Cho, Hye Won Kim, Chaewhi Lim, Eunwoo Nam, Chan-Bum Choi, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Sang-Cheol Bae, Dae Hyun Yoo, Su Jin Hong, Seung-Jin Yoo, Youkyung Lee and Yoon-Kyoung Sung
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:137
  38. In the EDITA trial, patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and mild pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) treated with ambrisentan had a significant decline of pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) but not of mean pu...

    Authors: Panagiota Xanthouli, Paul Uesbeck, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Norbert Blank, Christina A. Eichstaedt, Satenik Harutyunova, Benjamin Egenlauf, Jerry G. Coghlan, Christopher P. Denton, Ekkehard Grünig and Nicola Benjamin
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:136
  39. With great interest, we have read the recent article “Expression of HIF1α in intestinal epithelium restricts arthritis inflammation by inhibiting RIPK3-induced cell death machinery” published by Lyu et al. in Ann...

    Authors: George D. Kalliolias and Athanasios G. Papavassiliou
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:135
  40. To investigate the distribution and activation of B-cell subpopulations in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKis) and to analyze their correlation with disease remission.

    Authors: Jing Luo, Jing Zhang, Bomiao Ju, Yanhua Wang, Nan Hu, Qian Li, Qianyun Xu, Dan Pu, Zhiming Hao, Yongwei Huo, Xiaohong Lv and Lan He
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:134
  41. Most estimates of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prevalence, including all official figures in Australia and many other countries, are based on self-report. Self-report has been shown to overestimate RA, but the ‘g...

    Authors: Louise Koller-Smith, Ahmed Mehdi, Lyn March, Leigh Tooth, Gita D. Mishra and Ranjeny Thomas
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:133
  42. The increased availability of myositis autoantibodies represents new possibilities and challenges in clinical practice (Lundberg IE, Tjärnlund A, Bottai M, Werth VP, Pilkington C, de Visser M, et al. 2017 Euro...

    Authors: Falk Schumacher, Maximilian Zimmermann, Malte Kanbach, Wigbert Schulze, Maximilian Wollsching-Strobel, Doreen Kroppen, Sarah Bettina Stanzel, Daniel Majorski, Wolfram Windisch, Johannes Strunk and Melanie Berger
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:132
  43. Association of HLA-B27 with spondyloarthritis (SpA) has been known for 50 years, but still remains unexplained. We recently showed that HLA-B27 expressed in wing imaginal disc from HLA-B27/human-β2 microglobul...

    Authors: Marc Lauraine, Maxence de Taffin de Tilques, Dganit Melamed-Kadosh, Bilade Cherqaoui, Vincent Rincheval, Erwan Prevost, Aurore Rincheval-Arnold, Eneida Cela, Arie Admon, Isabelle Guénal, Luiza M. Araujo and Maxime Breban
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:131
  44. The aim of this prospective observational cohort study was to unveil the predictors of treatment response to tocilizumab (TCZ) therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, in terms of clinical characteristic...

    Authors: Jingbo Su, Wenlu Hu, Yanxia Ding, Panpan Zhang, Tianfang Li, Shengyun Liu and Lihua Xing
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:130
  45. Despite the extensive research to provide a disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug (DMOAD), there is still no approved DMOAD. Dual amylin and calcitonin receptor agonists (DACRA) can provide metabolic benefits ...

    Authors: Khaled Elhady Mohamed, Anna Thorsø Larsen, Simone Melander, Frederik Andersen, Ellen Barendorff Kerrn, Morten Asser Karsdal and Kim Henriksen
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:129
  46. Authors: Javier Narvaez, Elena Canadillas, Ivan Castellvi, Juan Jose Alegre, Vanesa Vicens‑Zygmunt, Guadalupe Bermudo, Paola Vidal-Montal, Maria Molina Molina and Joan Miquel Nolla
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:128

    The original article was published in Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:122

  47. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and CV mortality. Subclinical carotid atherosclerosis is independently associated with rates of incident CV events a...

    Authors: Marta Hernández-Díaz, Dara Rodríguez-González, Elena Heras-Recuero, Fuensanta Gómez-Bernal, Juan Carlos Quevedo-Abeledo, Agustín F. González-Rivero, Elena González-López, J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Alejandro Jimenez-Sosa, Miguel Ángel González-Gay and Iván Ferraz-Amaro
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:127
  48. Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with poor treatment outcomes. The role and underlying mechanisms of ferroptosis in LN remain largely unknown. We aimed to exp...

    Authors: Li Zhang, Qing Yan, Miao Lin, Juanjuan He, Jie Tian, Zhihan Chen and Fuyuan Hong
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:126
  49. To determine the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD) and its treatment and interstitial lung disease in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc).

    Authors: A. Quinlivan, D. Neuen, D. Hansen, W. Stevens, L. Ross, N. Ferdowsi, S. M. Proudman, J. G. Walker, J. Sahhar, G-S. Ngian, D. Apostolopoulos, L. V. Host, G. Major, C. Basnayake, K. Morrisroe and M. Nikpour
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:124

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