The Study Group for Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis was established by the EULAR
Standing Committee on Investigative Rheumatology to facilitate research into the preclinical …

Glucocorticoids regulate many physiological processes and have an essential role in the
systemic response to stress. For example, gene transcription is modulated by the glucocorticoid…

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered a systemic autoimmune disease with the main
characteristic of persistent joint inflammation that results in joint damage and loss of function. …

The present cross-sectional study analyzed the extent to which illness perceptions and coping
strategies (as measured by the Illness Perception Questionnaire and the Utrecht Coping …

Objective To apply a data-driven approach to investigate, in patients newly presenting with
undifferentiated inflammatory synovitis, key variables that discriminate the subset of patients …

In a search for aspects of behaviour related to oral contraceptive use which might explain
the favourable effect of oral contraception on the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), cigarette …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate those characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
that are associated with the development of rheumatoid vasculitis (RV). METHODS: …

Serum rheumatoid factors (RF) were measured yearly in 135 women with rheumatoid arthritis
by the Waaler-Rose and latex fixation tests and IgM, IgA, and IgG RF were measured by …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the benefit of intensive dynamic exercises in comparison to
range of motion (ROM) and isometric exercises in rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS: 100 …

OBJECTIVE: Early arthritis patients referred to an Early Arthritis Clinic (EAC) (n = 233) were
compared to 241 patients from the routine out-patient clinic with respect to lag time between …