Obesity & Inflammation
Obesity & Rheumatic Disease “Obesity is an inflammatory state, so it is in the landscape of the rheumatologist,” says Christopher Ritchlin, MD, MPH. And the more attention rheumatologists pay to…
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Obesity & Rheumatic Disease “Obesity is an inflammatory state, so it is in the landscape of the rheumatologist,” says Christopher Ritchlin, MD, MPH. And the more attention rheumatologists pay to…
Systematic review of efficacy of anti–tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy in patients with psoriasis previously treated with a different anti–TNF agent Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists have improved outcomes for…
PsA Treatment Guidelines Organized by Five Domains The 2015 recommendations for PsA treatment highlight the importance of managing comorbidities… rheumatologynetwork.com Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis 2015…
Weight Loss Improves Psoriasis Jennsen et al previously reported their findings regarding weight reductions ability to improve… rheumnow.com Gastric bypass associated with reduced risk for psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis There was…
Psoriatic Arthritis Patients have More Heart Disease A study of 90 consecutive male (50.3±11.1 years) with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) were were compared to 240 age matched controls without known cardiovascular (CV)…
Comparative effectiveness of dextrose prolotherapy versus control injections and exercise in the management of osteoarthritis pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://youtu.be/GcAHty7o-y4 Comparative effectiveness of dextrose prolotherapy versus control injections…
Gait Is Key to Capturing Effects of DJS on Knee OA Capturing the concomitant effect of knee kinetics and kinematics during gait, knee sagittal dynamic joint stiffness (DJS) is a…
2 biotechs look to market knee pain treatments Flexion Therapeutics has applied for approval of a long-lasting injection to treat osteoarthritis in the knee, while Centrexion Therapeutics is accelerating its…
Histopathological subgroups in knee osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous, multi-tissue disease. We hypothesised that different histopathological features characterise different stages during knee OA progression, and that discrete subgroups can…
Surgical Pearls in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Lifetime of Lessons Learned After over 4 decades of experience with total knee arthroplasty (TKA), I have learned many lessons… mdedge.com Pre-Op TKA…