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Articles By Jack Cush, MD

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Barriers to Treat-to-Target in Rheumatoid Arthritis

A systematic and scoping literature examined the Treat-to-target (T2T) approach to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), noting its implementation is suboptimal and finding many barriers to implementation.

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Gout Forecast: 70% Increase by 2050

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study of 2021 has forecasted prevalence of gout to increase by 70% by 2050. In the USA, the prevalence of gout is estimated to be 10.3 million. As of 2020, 55.8 million people globally had gout, with a prevalence of 659.3 per 100 000 (this represents a 22.5% increase since 1990).

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CARRA Consensus Treatment for Refractory Juvenile Dermatomyositis

CARRA has developed consensus treatment plans for the use of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in patients with refractory, moderately severe juvenile dermatomyositis. Juvenile dermatomyositis is the most common form of idiopathic, inflammatory myositis in childhood, with an estimated incidence of 3.2 per million children per year in the United States.

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Lead with Lupus (8.2.2024)

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week on RheumNow.com - leading with lupus because everyone wants to know about lupus!

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Frequency and Features of CPPD

An international cohort study of patients with calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease, i.e., recurrent acute CPP crystal arthritis, chronic CPP crystal inflammatory arthritis, and crowned dens syndrome (CDS) identifies both acute and chronic inflammatory phenotypes, each with distinctive clinical and imaging diagnostic features.

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Decline in Physician Trust During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA reports that following the COVID-19 pandemic US adults trust in physicians and hospitals decreased, and was associated with lower odds of COVID vaccination.

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Review of Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease

Lancet Rheumatology has published a review of Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease - a chronic inflammatory and degenerative crystal arthropathy that increases with aging.

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Pain Reduction with Methotrexate in Knee Osteoarthritis

The Annals of Internal Medicine reports that oral, low dose, weekly methotrexate significantly reduced knee osteoarthritis (KOA) pain, stiffness, and function in a randomized controlled trial.

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New Classification Criteria for Juvenile Axial Spondyloarthritis

An expert panel has published new and validated classification criteria for axial disease in children with juvenile spondyloarthritis (SpA; AxJSpA).

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Location, Location, Location (7.26.2024)

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com. Location matters; Geo-rheumatology?

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