Background Increases in lipid levels and cancers with tofacitinib prompted a trial of major
adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and cancers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis …

Objective Vitamin D is a potent regulator of calcium homeostasis and may have immunomodulatory
effects. The influence of vitamin D on human autoimmune disease has not been well …

Objective: To examine the epidemiology of gout and gout treatment in the United Kingdom
using a large national practice based population. Methods: Data from the UK General …

Objective To provide guidance to rheumatology providers on the use of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID‐19) vaccines for patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (…

Objective To map the antibody response to human citrullinated α‐enolase, a candidate
autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to examine cross‐reactivity with bacterial enolase. …

Objective To examine the degree to which shared risk factors explain the relationship of
periodontitis (PD) to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to determine the associations of PD and …

Background Few blinded trials have compared conventional therapy consisting of a
combination of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs with biologic agents in patients with …

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by excess morbidity
and mortality from cardiovascular disease. Mechanisms linking rheumatoid arthritis and …

We conducted a genome-wide association study of rheumatoid arthritis in 2,418 cases and
4,504 controls from North America and identified an association at the REL locus, encoding c-…

Background: Similarities exist in the epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of periodontitis
and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the associations between their respective disease …