Objectives To estimate the incidence and prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the UK over the period 1999–2012. Methods A retrospective cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research ...

3 Centre for Public Health, Queens’ University Belfast, Belfast, UK 4 Department of Rheumatology, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, UK 5 Department of Rheumatology, Chapel Allerton Hospital, ...

562 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TG6 2S2 Whiplash associated disorders have become an international medicolegal and social dilemma. Physicians are ...

Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK Correspondence to: Dr U T Kadam Primary Care Sciences Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK; u ...

Academic Rheumatology, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr Edward Roddy Academic Rheumatology, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City ...

Dr K R Muir, Division of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Community Health Sciences, University Hospital, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH. OBJECTIVE To investigate the ...

Objective We sought to develop the first Damage Index (DI) in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Methods The conceptual definition of ‘damage’ in SSc was determined through consensus by a working group of the ...

Background: Since the 2015 GRAPPA treatment recommendations were published, therapeutic options and management strategies for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have advanced considerably. Objectives: The goal ...

1 Department of Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria 2 Sections of Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, and Rheumatology, Department of ...

MRC Centre for Child Health/Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK Correspondence to Professor G J Macfarlane, Epidemiology Group, Institute of ...

Objective: To determine whether IL18 has any indirect effects on osteoclastogenesis mediated by T cells in RA synovium, and compare its effects with those of IL1β and TNFα. Methods: Resting T cells ...

Department of Rheumatology, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of sacroiliac joints has evolved as the most relevant ...