Objective Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This post hoc analysis assessed whether baseline body mass index (BMI) impacts tofacitinib efficacy in ...

Mader R, Verlaan JJ, Eshed I, et al. Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): where we are now and where to go next. RMD Open 2017;3:e000472. The fourth author of this article should be cited ...

Objective To determine distinct patterns of patients with autoimmune diseases harbouring anti-Ku antibodies and their respective prognosis.Methods Anti-Ku-positive patients were retrieved through four ...

van Straalen JW, Akay G, Kouwenberg CV, et al. Methotrexate therapy associated with a reduced rate of new-onset uveitis in patients with biological-naïve juvenile idiopathic arthritis. RMD Open 2023;9 ...

Kronzer VL, Davis JM, Hanson AC, et al. Association between sinusitis and incident rheumatic diseases: a population-based study. RMD Open 2024;10:e003622. In this article, the polymyalgia rheumatica ...

Objectives The window of opportunity (WOO) hypothesis suggests a limited time frame to stop rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We hypothesised that a WOO could either be represented by a hyperbolic (‘curved’) ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, progressive and inflammatory disease often leading to irreversible destruction of articular structures and consequent disability. The key steps of RA ...

Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are a group of severe autoimmune diseases, sharing some similarities, whose cause is unknown and treatment is empirical. While C-protein-induced myositis (CIM), the most ...

Arevalo Salaet M, López-Medina C, Moreno M, et al. Association between HLA-B27 and peripheral spondyloarthritis phenotype: results from the ASAS perSpA study. RMD Open 2022;8:e002696. Doi: ...

To cite: Wang J, Bao C, Dai Q, et al. Efficacy and safety of jaktinib hydrochloride tablets in active axial spondyloarthritis: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II ...

To cite: Song Y, Lee J, Jo J, et al. Comparison of active tuberculosis occurrence associated with Janus kinase inhibitors and biological DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis. RMD Open 2024;10:e003946. doi: ...

To cite: Pappa M, Keramiotou K, Sfikakis PP, et al. Frailty is independently associated with subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic lupus ...