The recent insight that inflammation contributes to the development of atherosclerosis and
type 2 diabetes mellitus constitutes a major breakthrough in understanding the mechanisms …

… Arthritis Rheum 1996;39(1):34–40 and Van Gestel AM, Haagsma CJ, Van Riel PLCM.
Validation of rheumatoid arthritis improvement criteria that include simplified joint counts. Arthritis …

This review provides an overview of the effects of non-pharmacological treatments for
patients with fibromyalgia (FM), including cognitive–behavioural therapy, exercise training …

… Correlations of all scores with the Mallya index (3) and the van Riel index (4) were of the
magnitude of 0.80. For the construct validity, data on radiographic damage for the disease …

In this article, the 2010 European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations
for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with synthetic and biological disease-…

… DCsirCe van der Heijde for the radiographic data for the validation study. … Van Riel PLCM,
van de Putte LBA: DC-ART: what proportion of response constitutes a positive response? J …

A major challenge in human genetics is to devise a systematic strategy to integrate disease-associated
variants with diverse genomic and biological data sets to provide insight into …

To identify new genetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis, we conducted a genome-wide
association study meta-analysis of 5,539 autoantibody-positive individuals with rheumatoid …

… Van der Heijde DM, van ’t Hof M, van Riel PL, van de Putte LB. Development of a disease
activity score based on judgment in clinical practice by rheumatologists. J Rheumatol 1993;20: …

In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammato ry activity cannot be measure d using one single
variable. For this reason the Disease Activity Score (DAS) has been developed. The DAS is a …