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Better at Predicting RA from MRI: Humans or Computers?
An artificial intelligence model to assess pre-RA hand MRIs has confirmed what human readers have known before: that bone marrow edema and tenosynovitis are objectively the best predictors of future RA development in patients with clinically suspect arthralgias or undiffer
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Colchicine and the Risk of Knee and Hip Replacement
Treatment of osteoarthritis is a major unmet need, as there are few therapies effective at pain control and no options for disease modification; yet a new trial in Annals of Internal Medicine suggest that chronic low dose colchicine may alter disease progression and lower the risk of of total knee and total hip replacements.
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FRAX Tool is Suboptimal in Predicting Osteoporosis Fracture Risk in Younger Post-menopausal Women
The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), which includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), which does not, had suboptimal performance in determining major osteoporotic fracture risk across racial/ethnic categories in you
Read ArticleICYMI: Spondyloarthritis Innovations
The second day of RheumNow Live 2023 held in March ended with a focus on axial spondyloarthritis, especially on the evaluation of the definition of the disease, the inheritance of it, and of course the treatment of it.
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