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Dr. Quotes (11.8.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week from RheumNow.com.
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Swapping is Better than Cycling in Psoriatic Arthritis
A real-world cohort study suggests that psoriatic arthritis failing to respond to TNF inhibitors (TNFi) may do better if they subsequently swap to an IL-17 inhibitor, rather than cycling to another TNFi.
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Dot the "i", Cross the "t" (10.11.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com. Today’s reports suggest where to look for help, especially with regard to pain.
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Stop Counting Bugs (10.4.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com.This week’s rants include the microbiome, PsA treatment choices and fishing for P-values in research.
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Systemic Sclerosis Insights (9.13.2024)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from this past week on RheumNow.com.
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In an RCT of colchicine vs PBO in #gout for 6 months shows that colchicine prophylaxis when initiating ULT did not increase the odds of achieving gout remission. https://t.co/kgNzw0UUIq https://t.co/ZdBT0Fp9Gx
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Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease -- a full access, full read review in Lancet Rheumatology. Just published ahttps://buff.ly/3C319CH https://t.co/PxywxvzVCh
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GWAS study of 2.6 million people (120,295 w/ prevalent gout) detected 377 loci & 410 independent genes (149 prev unreported), includes genes of inflammation, epigenetic remodeling, cell osmolarity, NLRP3 activity, & clonal hematopoiesis (CHIP) https://t.co/GmXWtTlJkO https://t.co/xPK2Iy3NRj
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Intracellular vs extracellular Calcium Pyrophosphate Crystals in 134 pts - 108 w/ intracellular & 26 w/ extracellular CPP crystals. Having Acute/chronic CPP crystal arthritis - 97% had intracellular and 62 extracellular crystals (p<0.001). Arthritis more likely to be asso w/… https://t.co/oRVNKptLfx https://t.co/06oGP4EyVJ
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NOR-Gout study shows Non-adherence to urate lowering therapy after 5 years is related to poor gout outcomes. 5-year Observational study of 163 patients showed overall good ULT adherence but nonadherent had more flares (33 vs 10%) & less at target (45 vs 87%)… https://t.co/xuIjBiuFHF https://t.co/fmqkCOYayP
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Progression of Undifferentiated Arthritis to Inflammatory Arthritis
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NOR-Gout study shows Non-adherence to urate lowering therapy after 5 years is related to poor gout outcomes. 5-year Observational study of 163 patients showed overall good ULT adherence but nonadherent had more flares (33 vs 10%) & less at target (45 vs 87%)… https://t.co/wHQIRbIoBu https://t.co/eBKL4uRfZc
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Systemic Sclerosis Insights (9.13.2024)
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French retrospective study of 181 hemodialysis pts (97 on urate Rx-90% allopurinol, 9% febuxostat). W/ ULT pts had significantly fewer agout flare (HR:0.42; CI 95: 0.25-0.71). Overall flares 35% (23% ULT vs 50% w/o ULT; p 0.0002) https://t.co/9hTgsR2Kx9 https://t.co/Bef0T1po2c
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post hoc analysis of 4432 pt COLCORONA trial, showed colchicine had few drug interactions, none serious. The most common were interactions w/ rosuvastatin & atorvastatin (10-12% of all pts), that MAY nonsignificantly increase colchicine exposure https://t.co/W3JXne0ywH https://t.co/dNz6NVYjUW
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