Obesity in Rheumatic Diseases
Obesity Drives Increased Arthritis Rates in Younger Adults A major longitudinal study found that arthritis prevalence is increasing in younger population cohorts and that arthritis onset is earlier in obese…
The 9 Muses are daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, Greek goddesses personifying the inspiration for the sciences and the arts.
My highly opinionated news-blog draws inspiration from both the science and the art of Rheumatology.
Obesity Drives Increased Arthritis Rates in Younger Adults A major longitudinal study found that arthritis prevalence is increasing in younger population cohorts and that arthritis onset is earlier in obese…
Diabetes and Hypertension: A Position Statement by the American Diabetes Association Hypertension is common among patients with diabetes, with the prevalence depending on type and duration of diabetes, age, sex,…
Exploring Link Between CV and Rheumatic Diseases Exploring Link Between CV and Rheumatic Diseases mdedge.com Does the ACC/AHA provide a more accurate assessment of cardiovascular risk in rheumatic patients than…
CV Involvement Common in IgG4 Disease Periaortitis or periarteritis present in more than one-third of patients medpagetoday.com Clinical features of IgG4-related periaortitis/periarteritis based on the analysis of 179 patients with…
IgG Subclasses and Allotypes: From Structure to Effector Functions Of the five immunoglobulin isotypes, Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is most abundant in human serum. The four subclasses, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and…
Erdheim–Chester disease Erdheim–Chester disease (also known as Erdheim–Chester syndrome or polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis) is a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of a specific type of white… en.wikipedia.org Consensus…
Mechanisms of Mixed Chimerism-Based Transplant Tolerance Immune responses to allografts represent a major barrier in organ transplantation. Immune… cell.com
Cancer Immunotherapy Helped With Good Gut Bacteria Breakthrough to be assessed in new clinical trial medpagetoday.com Your gut bacteria could determine how you respond to cutting-edge cancer drugs Planned trial…
Inflammation-induced IgA+ cells dismantle anti-liver cancer immunity <p>Cancer progression beyond the early stages is thought to be caused in some cases by adaptive immunity, but its role remains controversial. In…
The Principles of Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer The emergence of synthetic biology approaches for cellular engineering is providing us with a broadly expanded set of tools that can…