Objective: To assess the clinical effects of acupuncture in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Methods: Seventy patients fulfilled at least 4 items of the diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). All patients were instructed not to receive other relevant ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, erosive arthritis that requires early and aggressive treatment. Diagnosed clinically. Laboratory and radiographic testing provide prognostic information more often than diagnostic information. Early and aggressive treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD...
Objective To determine how well the American College of Rheumatology (ACR; formerly, the American Rheumatism Association) 1987 classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), when used at study inclusion in a cohort of 270 patients with early (<1 year) arthritis, predicted a diagnosis of RA...
New classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were presented by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in 2010, aiming for early identification of patients at risk of developing persistent and erosive arthritis. Since their publication,...
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease affecting joints and more. Reviewed by a board-certified rheumatologist.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissue. Symptoms include pain, swelling, and stiffness of the joints. When untreated, joint damage and deformities can eventually lead to difficulty moving the hands, wrists, knees, and/or ...
Methods: Seventy patients fulfilled at least 4 items of the diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). All patients were instructed not to receive other relevant therapies during research. Patients were randomized into a treatment group and a control ...
ACR 1987 contains seven diagnostic criteria, which are described elsewhere14,16. Evidence collected from a systematic review was used in GBD 2019 to calculate the prevalence, incidence and mortality of RA. The exclusion criteria included: (1) studies with samples that were not nationally ...
The objective of this study was to explore the associations of body mass index (BMI), fat mass index (FMI), skeletal mass index (SMI) and secondary osteoporosis (OP) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The bone mineral density (BMD) at sites of t
B cells are postulated to be central in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here, we use exploratory mass cytometry (n = 23) and next-generation sequencing (n = 19) to study B-cell repertoire shifts in RA patients. Expression of several B