RHEUM || Journal

Guidelines, quality indicators found lacking for CVD in RA

Posted on: 11/08/2014 - 21:30

Rheumatoid arthritis increases cardiovascular risks as much as diabetes does, but guidelines and quality indicators fail to adequately address cardiovascular disease prevention for RA patients,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Bisphosphonates don’t cut risk of breast cancer

Posted on: 11/08/2014 - 21:00

Three to four years of therapy with the bisphosphonates alendronate and zoledronic acid, taken at doses used to treat osteoporosis, did not decrease the risk of incident breast cancer in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Bisphosphonates don’t cut risk of breast cancer

Posted on: 11/08/2014 - 21:00

Three to four years of therapy with the bisphosphonates alendronate and zoledronic acid, taken at doses used to treat osteoporosis, did not decrease the risk of incident breast cancer in...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Age, income, ethnicity predicted rheumatoid arthritis drug discontinuation

Posted on: 31/07/2014 - 18:25

Some of the same factors that predict patients’ discontinuation of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis also appear to predict their initiation, such as use of oral...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Higher risk of progression found in joints with subclinical joint inflammation on MRI

Posted on: 30/07/2014 - 18:50

The joints of patients with early arthritis that showed subclinical inflammation on MRI had an increased risk of radiographic progression in the first year after disease presentation, particularly...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance occur frequently in psoriatic arthritis patients

Posted on: 07/07/2014 - 14:35

The metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance are not just common among patients with psoriatic arthritis, but both also correlate with the severity of the inflammatory musculoskeletal disease,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Glucocorticoid shots ineffective for spinal stenosis

Posted on: 02/07/2014 - 22:00

Epidural injections of glucocorticoids plus lidocaine proved ineffective at improving pain or function in older adults with central spinal stenosis in a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Psoriasis risk rises in women with history of hypertension and beta-blocker use

Posted on: 02/07/2014 - 21:00

Women with a 6-year or longer history of hypertension, and women with a 6-year or longer use of beta-blocker medications to treat hypertension, may be at increased risk of developing psoriasis,...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Low infliximab start dose appears effective in psoriatic arthritis

Posted on: 26/06/2014 - 18:15

Median starting doses of infliximab in psoriatic arthritis patients in two nationwide registries were below the recommended dose of 5 mg/kg every 8 weeks, but outcomes suggest that a low starting...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

TNF-alpha antagonists did not increase cancer risk in IBD

Posted on: 17/06/2014 - 21:00

The tumor necrosis factor–alpha antagonists infliximab, adalimumab, and certolizumab did not raise the risk of cancer in a nationwide Danish cohort study of patients with inflammatory bowel disease...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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