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Current recommendations are that obesity management is an integral component of gout treatment and that, in parallel, gout awareness is an important component in the treatment of the metabolic syndrome.
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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has released updated clinical guidance for the treatment and management of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, hip, and hand. The evidence-based recommendations update the 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline and are designed to support individualized, shared decision-making between patients and clinicians.
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HLA-B27 remains the dominant genetic link to spondyloarthritis (SpA) across the age spectrum, but B27 related clinical expression diverges between children and adults. New mechanistic data on autoreactive T cells, HLA-B27 misfolding, and gut-joint trafficking point to new plausible, targetable pathways.
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A small randomized controlled trial demonstrates that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) added to cortocosteroids lead to greater and faster improvements in patients with newly diagn
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Early RA Referral Clinics Work!
An outcomes study from the Leiden Early Arthritis Clinic (EAC) has shown substantially less diagnostic delay and better long-term outcomes when patients are referred to EAC compared to usual referrals.
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Obesity management goes far beyond the number on the scale.
Watch our Four Pillars of Weight Loss video series, part of this month’s The Obesity Imperative campaign.
What Are the Four Pillars of Obesity Management?
Building a Multidisciplinary Program for Obesity & Arthritis https://t.co/16v4JFVWWs
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QD Clinic: Bariatric Surgery "Curing" Arthritis?
Dr. Richard Conway, Dublin, presents this QD Clinic as part of RheumNow's "The Obesity Imperative" campaign, presented in September 2026.
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Obesity Journal Club: Tuesday Nite Rheumatology
The Obesity Journal Club explores the TOGETHER PsA and STEP 9 trials and what emerging evidence tells us about the relationship between obesity, weight loss, and rheumatic disease. Panelists discussed the results of these trials, https://t.co/3C1RLyRj0b
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Discussing Weight Loss: 3 Minute Script
Dr. Jack Cush's 3 Minute Script as discussed in his Introducing Weight Loss video.
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Indian study of 85 #RA pts in LDA or better (DAS28-ESR ≤ 3.2). W/ 6 mos F/U, 39 (46%) had 1+ RA flare (DAS28 > 3.2); time to flare 12 wks (8–18) unrelate to Dz activity. Predictors: seropositivity (HR 2-2.3) https://t.co/ifqeoPtxpx https://t.co/ltx64X55fd
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Data presented at 2027 ASMBS meeting showed betw 2020-2024, wt loss surgeries dropped 23%, from 230,000 in 2022 to 177,000 in 2024. Less than 1% of eligible pts are now having weight-loss surgery https://t.co/UnYIIBDdnz https://t.co/FuwnOuBUeY
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Weight Loss Improves Psoriatic Disease Substantially!
Even before the introduction of incretin therapy and bariatric surgery, many randomized and interventional studies (2019–2026) have consistently showed that weight loss produces clinically meaningful, dose-dependent https://t.co/BWeW7fzSC8
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A Day of Infamy (9.11.2026)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week on Rheumnow - including obesity, disappointing durability with GLP-1 drugs, AI diagnoses and worries about CV risk in ANCA-associated vasculitis.
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Metanalysis 11 studies & 104277 gout & hyperuricemic pts shows erectile dysfunction is signif. increased (RR1.37; 1.14-1.65) related to lower testosterone & estradiol. Other factors: obesity, age, DM, CVD. https://t.co/1ufih2E3UN https://t.co/NgQuHt4vR1
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Congratulations to Professor Christopher Goodnow, BVSc, MBBS, PhD (from UNSW Sydney) as he is the recipient of the German Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for 2027 base on his work in autoimmunity! https://t.co/uvfYfXTrh3 https://t.co/FgyOzTI8lb
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Single center study of FALLs in 124 ambulatory RA females ≥50 yrs.(age 68 yrs, DAS28 2.6, sarcopenia 16%, prior fall 25%). 27.4% had falls; predicted by prior fall hx (OR 2.76, hypnotics/anxiolytics (3.92), not steroids or sarcopenia (NS trend) https://t.co/J62RPF9rQs https://t.co/OKxdPl5Oev
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Chinese 52 wk study of XKH004, a novel, SC, humanized anti-17A/F in 323 active AS pts Rx q4 wks vs PBO. @ Wk 16, XKH004 was superior for ASAS40 (45.4% vs 19.4%; P<0.001), improved to 66% by wk 52. https://t.co/f7w41m4QZy https://t.co/5MPm388kau
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In 2022, Overweight & obesity affect 65.8% of Swiss PsA pts (vs gen pop.= 43%) and has increased since 2007. Obesity was assoc w/ elevated CRP (56% vs 37%), Inc Pt global assess (3.2 vs 2.8), & MD global (2.5 vs 2.1) & lower EQ-5D-3L(0.7 vs 0.8). https://t.co/xPoy4dgvlD https://t.co/aeB5N6LgCd
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JAMA: Review of Adult Rheumatoid Arthritis
This JAMA narrative review is a follow-up to their 2018 publication, informed by 123 articles (46 RCTs, 28 cohort studies, 11 systematic reviews/meta-analyses, 15 guidelines) covering epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and https://t.co/6Fiu9iLF5I
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Obesity in Axial Spondyloarthritis: what are we missing beyond the scale?
Obesity in axSpA is not a minor comorbidity.
While obesity is more often discussed in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) due to the psoriasis-adipose tissue link which is mechanistically better studied and https://t.co/bFkoPmc0pC
