TY - JOUR T1 - Famous Artists Who Suffer(ed) From Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Review JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 623 LP - 627 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.200976 VL - 48 IS - 4 AU - Jozélio Freire de Carvalho AU - Felipe Freire da Silva AU - Carlos Augusto Ferreira de Andrade AU - José Dirson Argolo AU - Licia Maria Henrique da Mota Y1 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/48/4/623.abstract N2 - To the Editor:Rheumatic diseases (RD) occur at a relatively high frequency in the population. We hypothesize that some of these diseases may have affected some artists and possibly influenced their works. In this article, a systematic review of all studies that described the occurrence of rheumatic diseases in famous artists in the world was performed. A PEO format (P = population, E = exposure, O = outcome) to elaborate the research question, “Famous artists (P), with rheumatic diseases (E), have their works changed (O) due to these diseases?” was used.An extensive literature search in Pubmed/MEDLINE, Scielo, and LILACS, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, was performed without language restriction, from 1965 to June 2020. After the review of titles and abstracts, 116 out of 1026 articles were selected for reading the full texts, of which 68 were selected for this review. We have identified 20 famous artists who had RD. Table 1 is a summary of all data regarding the artists1–20. Most of them had rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as … Address correspondence to Dr. J.F. de Carvalho, Rua das Violetas, 42, ap. 502, Pituba, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Email: jotafc{at}gmail.com. ER -