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A report from The National Databank for Rheumatic Disease addressed the impact of alcohol on disease activity and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and found that alcohol use was not associated with changes in disease activity or mortality, after addressing confounders.
Recent research from the Lown Institute reports that 750 older Americans are hospitalized daily because of serious side effects from and the core problem is that of polypharmacy, especially in the elderly.
Both allopurinol and febuxostat (Uloric) were associated with an increased risk of hypersensitivity reactions among new users of these urate-lowering therapies, a large U.S. study found.
Large UK database looked at 1281 Behcet Dz pts - prevalence of BD was 14.61 per 100k. BD was at increased risk of ischaemic heart disease [aHR 3.09), venous thrombosis [aHR 4.80] and mortality [aHR 1.40] iVS 5K controls. https://t.co/FghxE6bAZ0
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