Week in Review - 20 Feb 2016 Save
- Dr. Jeff Curtis: blog on why some patients don't/won't do T2T and how to best frame the need for T2T in RA https://t.co/E4COzfBg0H
- Poor outcomes in spondyloarthritis due to: age >33yr, low education level, smoking, high baseline BASDAI and not meeting ASAS criteria
- IL-36 is an important mediator of bowel inflammation in mouse model of IBD, Blocking IL-36 improves the IBD https://t.co/Cr3bSsDIJk
- Opioid Use Increases the Risk of Hospitalized Infections in RA. https://t.co/OycGF5BIGP
- Myelodysplasia is associated with a 29% risk of developing autoimmune disease. Most common are: hypothyroid, ITP, RA, psoriasis. Better survival, less AML transformation when autoimmune disease is present. https://t.co/exNy6kyQUX
- 21% of spondyloarthritis patients have secondary fibromyalgia (and only 30% of these were women). FM-SpA patients, not surprisingly, had more depression, psychotropics, opioid use https://t.co/E6PrRBNajI
- Hidradenitis suppurativa is associated with higher rates of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality.
- Increasing Ultrasound training is provided in 90% of US Rheumatology Fellowships
- Review of lectures at RWCS.com – Check out R-W-C-S.com
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