Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with heart disease, and each disease flare has an additive effect. But achieving early remission may reduce the risks. INTRODUCTION Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects a person’s joints and sometimes their internal organs, causing pain and disability. Many studies have suggested that treatment and interventions should target […]
Month: March 2016
Smoking can reduce the efficacy of medicines for axial spondyloarthritis
Smoking may interfere with how biologic medicines reduce inflammation and joint damage in people with axial spondyloarthritis. INTRODUCTION Spondyloarthritis is an umbrella term for several conditions that share many of the same features and symptoms, including ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and reactive arthritis. Patients can also be classified as having axial or non-axial (peripheral) disease, […]
New imaging techniques may help to assess disease activity in RA
New imaging techniques may offer hope for quicker and cheaper and less invasive imaging in people with rheumatoid arthritis, allowing disease activity and progression to be more closely monitored. INTRODUCTION Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects a person’s joints and sometimes their internal organs, causing pain and disability. Rheumatoid arthritis can cause […]
Potential Positive Benefits of Nutritious, Well-balanced Diet in People with Lupus
Cecilia Lourdudoss, Ph.D. student at the Unit for Research Therapy, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, spoke with the Lupus Foundation of America recently about her latest research findings on the association of diet and steroid use in people with lupus, published in Lupus Science & Medicine. In this study, vitamin D was […]
