Background: Descriptive epidemiology of total joint replacement procedures is limited to
annual procedure volumes (incidence). The prevalence of the growing number of individuals …

Objective A high frequency of infections complicating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been
described in reports of case series. This retrospective longitudinal cohort study was undertaken …

Objective To determine whether systemic inflammation confers any additional risk for
cardiovascular death among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after adjusting for traditional …

Objective To examine the risk of clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with age‐ and sex‐matched non‐RA subjects, and to …

OBJECTIVES: To examine patterns of muscle mass change with aging and to estimate the
prevalence of sarcopenia. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional survey. SETTING: Population‐based …

The objective of this study was to develop European League Against Rheumatism/American
College of Rheumatology classification criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). …

Objective To examine trends in the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
from 1995 to 2007. Methods To augment our preexisting inception cohort of patients with RA (…

Objective Interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been recognized as an important comorbidity in
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We undertook the current study to assess incidence, predictors, …

Objective To evaluate trends in and risk factors for mortality among patients with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) over a 40‐year period. Methods A population‐based inception cohort was …

Objective To determine the incidence and disease‐specific predictors of clinically recognized
psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients with psoriasis. Methods We identified an incidence …