INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis is a common inflammatory condition. A large number
of patients seek alternative or complementary therapies of which diet is an important …

Gout is a chronic disease caused by monosodium urate (MSU) crystal deposition. Gout typically
presents as an acute, self-limiting inflammatory monoarthritis that affects the joints of the …

Allopurinol is the most commonly prescribed urate-lowering therapy for the management of
gout. Serious adverse reactions associated with allopurinol, while rare, are feared owing to …

Objective To develop and validate revised classification criteria for granulomatosis with
polyangiitis (GPA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into …

Objective To develop and validate revised classification criteria for eosinophilic granulomatosis
with polyangiitis (EGPA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were …

Objective To develop and validate classification criteria for microscopic polyangiitis (MPA).
Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international …

Objectives To determine the causes of death and risk factors in systemic sclerosis (SSc).
Methods Between 2000 and 2011, we examined the death certificates of all French patients …

Objective To develop and validate new classification criteria for Takayasu arteritis (TAK).
Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international …

Objective Allopurinol is the most commonly used urate‐lowering therapy in gout. Allopurinol
hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) is a rare but potentially fatal adverse event. Dosing …

The field of biochemistry is currently faced with the enormous challenge of assigning
functional significance to more than thirty thousand predicted protein products encoded by the …