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In the 60-120 days following an acute gout flare, the risk of MI nearly doubles, and the risk of stroke rises significantly.
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Psoriatic Arthritis: EULAR 2026 Recap
Years of IL-17 vs. IL-23 debate in PsA finally got tested head-to-head: bimekizumab outperformed risankizumab on joint outcomes in the BE BOLD trial, while a GLP-1 combination study suggests weight and metabolic status are active drivers of PsA — not just comorbidities. This recap also digs into early signals that biologic choice may influence whether psoriasis progresses to PsA, and why some well-controlled patients are still in pain.
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Hip Replacement Advances
Hip replacement surgery has been a major advance in the management of patients with hip damage and diminishing quality of life. While this review provides new information regarding a new type of hardware (end of article), lets begin with a general https://t.co/ZosOkoawiv
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Why Do Gout Flares Start at Night?
The striking propensity for gout flares to initiate at night has been recognized for centuries. More recent epidemiological research supports this observation, indicating that the risk of a gout flare is more than twice as high in the early https://t.co/FbCUmXEl2y
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Rheumatoid arthritis is found in 2-3.8% of gout patients.
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Guidelines to Spot Cancer in High Risk Dermatomyositis
International guidelines can help identify dermatomyositis patients with a particularly high risk for cancer, according to a retrospective single-center U.S. study.
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QD Clinic: Allopurinol for All Gout? Not Quite
Dr. Brian Jaros, Chicago, discusses the use of allopurinol.
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QD Clinic: When There's Doubt in Gout
Dr. Eric Dein discusses how imaging was used in correctly diagnosing a mid-foot symptom in gout.
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ACR: Medicare Cuts for Physicians Highlight Need for Reform
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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) was disappointed that the proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) once again included a serious cut to the conversion factor.
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The Marriage between Gout and the Kidney
While the link between uric acid and gout was first described by Alfred Baring Garrod in the 1800s, the proof that uric acid might actually be the cause had to await the self-experimentation of two rheumatologists from the University of Pennsylvania. Given some comments that the presence of urate crystals in synovial fluid might just be a bystander phenomenon, they decided to inject monosodium urate crystals in one knee and water in the
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Gout Imaging in Care
Gout is all about the crystals and the consequences of the disease are due to the inflammation they cause. Getting rid of urate crystals is the ultimate goal in gout, as we now know that it leads to the risk zero of flares and it normalizes the https://t.co/DGuiTOtQFa
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Saliva and Uric Acid Testing
A recent report from China reaffirms the potential utility of salivary uric acid (UA) testing delivers smartphone-guided, enzyme-free gout screening at home for pennies per test.
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Four Things About Allopurinol Hypersensitivity Syndrome
Dr. Robert Terkeltaub discusses allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome in gout patients.
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Systemic sclerosis metanalysis of 31 studies (32,134 pts) shows malignancy risk signif increased (SIR 1.66; CI 1.32 - 2.08). Highest: esophageal, liver, cervical, lung, & Heme (SIR 3.35 - 13.95). 7.4 yr mean from SSc to CA dx. https://t.co/IhxvfkMqkf https://t.co/qvxKgvBzWu
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Genicular artery embolization for knee OA does not work in a 12-mos randomized sham-controlled trial of 58 pts. Pain scores improved equally in both groups https://t.co/7wwmzpTaNL https://t.co/8MsRXqKDo2
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ARTIC trial enrolled 234 DMARD naive RA (<2yrs) pts; 15.4% (36) were seronegative (SNRA). @enrollment SNRA worse than SPRA(+) w/ higher SJC (17 vs 8, p<0.001), DAS28 (3.9 vs 3.4, p=0.03), US scores (55 vs 25, p<0.001), MD global (49 vs 39, p=0.006). No diff in Sharp score, https://t.co/xDxQKY8ZG2
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Intl consortium (10 EU countries) of 3952 RA pts, 184 MACE events seen 1985-2012. MACE risk signif assoc w/ DAS28 (HR 1.18;1.03-1.35), but NOT RF (HR 1.26; 0.82 to 1.94) or ACPA (HR 1.25; 0.85 to 1.83). RA activity assoc w/ MACE seen in seronegative and double positive https://t.co/RGO5IAM5oL
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Fundamentals of CAR T Cell Therapy and Its Investigational Use in Autoimmune Diseases
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Learn more about the fundamentals of CAR T-cell therapy and its investigational use in autoimmune disease
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Watch our 'Systemic Burden of Gout' series as part of this month's Gout More than Flares campaign. Check out our new videos including: Gout & Cardiovascular Disease, Gout & Obesity and Subclinical Inflammation in Intercritical Gout.
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In the 60-120 days following an acute gout flare, the risk of MI nearly doubles, and the risk of stroke rises significantly.
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