How risky are family gatherings, birthday parties and informal social gatherings? A cross-sectional analysis suggests that birthdays may be associated with increased rates of COVID-19 infection within households where there is a high COVID-19 prevalence in the population.
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Debates over ideal candidates for total knee replacement (TKR) in osteoarthritis patients often excludes those who are obese, but a recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that TKR is both effective and cost-effective in obese patients (BMI >40 kg/m2)
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One-third of patients with rheumatoid arthritis had unacceptably high levels of pain 5 years after diagnosis, often despite low levels of inflammation, Swedish researchers found.
In an inception cohort of 232 patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, 34.1% still reported unacceptable
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With the expansion of knowledge regarding the safety of newer agents in pregnancy comes the PreCARA study showing that when pregnancy is planned and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are treated with a modified treat-to-target (T2T) approach, superior outcomes can be anticipated.
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The question of whether psoriasis is a state or pre-clinical psoriatic arthritis has been addressed by several studies; with one suggesting that biologic use in psoriasis may aver the future development of psoratic arthritis (PsA).
A retrospecitve analysis of non-randomized moderate-
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The Annals of Rheumatic Disease has published the results of a head-to-head trial showing that the Janus kinase-1 (JAK1) preferential inhibitor filgotinib was superior to a tumour necrosis factor-α inhibitor (adalimumab) in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on methotrexate (MTX).
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The NEJM has published results of a real-world efficacty trial showing that COVID infected children with the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) respond better to initial IVIG plus glucocorticoids (than IVIG alone) which was associated with less subsequent cardiovascular
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NEJM has published the results of an observational trial wherein tofacitinib given to patients hospitalized with Covid-19 pneumonia, was shown to significantly lower risk of death or respiratory failure.
This multicenter trial was conducted in Brazil. A total of 289 hospitalized
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It's been nearly two weeks since EULAR 21 ended. There were several presentations on the last day; notably, the late breaking abstracts and others. Here are a few of my favorites from Day 4, the final day of the meeting.
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"While the Food and Drug Administration decision on new drugs usually follows the recommendations of the advisory committee..."; this oft used proviso is used to either indicate a pending FDA decision or an FDA decision that is contrary to the recommendation of the advisory committee convened
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Dr. Jack Cush reviews and highlights his favorite abstracts and presentations from last week's virtual EULAR 2021 meeting.
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RheumNow faculty reporters scoured the Posters and Presentations from virtual EULAR 2021. Several of these are novel enough to be worthy of your consideration. Below is the list of the six most often retweeted abstracts from Day 1.
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Dr Jack Cush reviews highlight presentations from the first 3 days of EULAR 2021.
During Day 2 there were great sessions devoted to RA, spondylarthritis, fatigue and more. Here are some of my highlights from Day 2.
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After the opening ceremonies and keynote speaker there were several enticing sessions and a plenary session full of great research and presentations. Here are a few of the highlights that I saw.
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Foot pain is a common but underappreciated symptom of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and can be associated with worse disease, European researchers found.
In a cohort of 320 patients with RA, 69% reported foot or ankle pain, according to Morten Bilde Simonsen, PhD, of Aalborg University in
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A recent metanalysis assessed the comparative efficacy of current first-line pharmacologic antiinflammatory interventions for gout flares and surmised that canakinumab and intravenous or intramuscular corticosteroids are superior to nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAIDs].
From
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Lancet Respiratory Medicine has reported the results of the COLCORONA trial, showing that in patients with PCR-confirmed COVID-19 infection, colchicine led to a significantly lower rate of death or hospital admission from COVID.
Colchicine is an oral anti-inflammatory agent with
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Since the COVID vaccine rollout, more people have been eligible to receive the vaccine. However, not everyone chooses to get one. I have heard many reasons (aka excuses) from my patients who are vaccine hesitant.
Most come from people who are highly intelligent, and claimed that they will receive the vaccine but not yet. While I am not trying to force people to get vaccinated, I wanted to hear their side of the story and also ask that they hear mine.
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