rmdopen.bmj1d
Diagnosis challenges in inception cohorts in axial spondyloarthritis: the case of the French national DESIR cohort
Background Inception cohorts aim to describe chronic diseases from diagnosis and over years of follow-up. Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) diagnosis might be challenging during the first years of the ...
rmdopen.bmj1d
Large language model-driven sentiment analysis for facilitating fibromyalgia diagnosis
Background Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex disorder with widespread pain and emotional distress, posing diagnostic challenges. FM patients show altered cognitive and emotional processing, with a ...
rmdopen.bmj3d
Window of opportunity in rheumatoid arthritis – definitions and supporting evidence: from old to new perspectives
The therapeutic window of opportunity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often referred to. However, some have questioned whether such a period, in which the disease is more susceptible to ...
rmdopen.bmj6d
Novel insight into the aetiology of rheumatoid arthritis gained by a cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association study
Background Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 100 loci associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility, the causal genes and biological mechanisms ...
rmdopen.bmj10d
Efficacy and safety of filgotinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: week 156 interim results from a long-term extension study
Background Janus kinase inhibitors are an effective option for achieving sustained remission or low disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) following inadequate response to ...
rmdopen.bmj18d
EULAR ‘points to consider’ for the conduction of workforce requirement studies in rheumatology
Objective Current methods used for forecasting workforce requirements in rheumatology are disparate, as are the parameters incorporated into workforce projection studies. The objective of these ...
rmdopen.bmj24d
Pollutants: a candidate as a new risk factor for osteoarthritis—results from a systematic literature review
Background Considering non-classical environmental risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA), a systematic literature review (SLR) was performed to summarise existing knowledge on associations between OA ...
rmdopen.bmj25d
Diagnostic accuracy of inflammatory back pain for axial spondyloarthritis in rheumatological care
ObjectiveInflammatory back pain (IBP), the key symptom of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), including ankylosing spondylitis, has been proposed as a screening test for patients presenting with chronic ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Digital biomarkers for psoriatic arthritis: a qualitative focus group study on patient-perceived opportunities and barriers
Objectives The widespread adoption of wearables, for example, smartphones and smartwatches in the daily lives of the general ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Disease response in rheumatoid arthritis across four biologic therapies associates with improvement in paraoxonase-1 activity and oxylipins
Objective Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is a high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated enzyme, that has been implicated as a biomarker ...
rmdopen.bmj1mon
Forefoot inflammation in recent-onset ACPA-positive and ACPA-negative RA: clinically similar, but different in underlying inflamed tissues
Objectives Although joint swelling is traditionally interpreted as synovitis, recent imaging studies showed that there is also inflammation of tenosynovium and intermetatarsal bursae in the forefoot.