OA and RA may have similar symptoms, but they are two very different conditions. Osteoarthritis is caused by the wearing down of cartilage in the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease ...

23 in BMC Pulmonary Medicine. The impact of socioeconomic factors on disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) varies by academic or safety net hospital setting, according to a study published ...

Many different conditions can cause similar symptoms to rheumatoid arthritis, including fibromyalgia, SLE, psoriatic arthritis. There is also an overlap of symptoms between RA and these conditions, ...

The proposed biphasic model of SJIA also implies a ‘window of opportunity’ to abrogate the development of chronic arthritis. We aimed to identify novel SJIA biomarkers during different disease phases.

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23 Although HLA studies suggest different associations with psoriasis and RA, the diseases are not mutually exclusive, and some cases of RA will have coincidental psoriasis by chance alone. Psoriasis ...

Scientists soon learned about the limitations and side effects of cortisone. In the coming years, we enabled scientists to also gradually learn that arthritis was not one disease, but that there are ...

Now, scientists at Stanford University have found that a faulty genetic molecule could be responsible for the immune system misidentifying healthy tissue as a threat. The breakthrough study, published ...

Differences in how men and women manifest and experience psoriatic arthritis suggest it’s time to think of patient sex as a biomarker, one researcher said.