Objective. To develop initial American College of Rheumatology (ACR) guidelines on the use of exercise, rehabilitation, diet, and additional interventions in conjunction with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) as part of an integrative management approach for people with rheumatoid arthritis (...
RHEUMATOID arthritisANTIRHEUMATIC agentsRHEUMATOLOGYDIETREHABILITATIONCLINICAL indicationsObjective To develop initial American College of Rheumatology (ACR) guidelines on the use of exercise, rehabilitation, diet, and additional interventions in conjunction with disease鈥恗odifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) as...
1.Assoonaspossibleafterinitiationof≥2.5mg/dayGCease,hyperparathyroidism,rheumatoidarthritis,malabsorption, treatmentfor3months,screeningforfractureriskinchronicliverdisease,andinflammatoryboweldisease(Figure1). patients≥40yearsofageshouldbeassessedbyusingBMDwithVFAorspinalx-raysarestronglyrecommended,and, FRAXan...
[1]. Paulus HE, Egger MJ, Ward JR, Williams HJ. Analysis of improvement in individual rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, based on the findings in patients treated with placebo. The Cooperative Systematic Studies ...
A quarter of active rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving either 10mg (24.6 percent) or 15mg (28.1 percent) twice daily of the investigational oral JAK-3 (janus-associated kinase) inhibitor CP-690,550 achieved ACR70 after 12 weeks, according to the results of a new study presented today at...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic in?ammatory condition,andimprovedoutcomesoccurwith earlydiagnosis, eval- uation, and management. The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has previously published pharmacologic guidelines to aid cli- ...