Research Summaries

Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
10/17/2019
The authors evaluated whether polypharmacy is associated with treatment response and serious adverse events among more than 22,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
10/17/2019
Corticosteroid
Corticosteroid
10/16/2019
Intra-articular corticosteroids are frequently injected to relieve joint pain in osteoarthritis. But with emerging conflicting reports about safety, the authors of a new review investigated whether the...
10/16/2019
Rheumatologic disorders
Rheumatologic disorders
10/11/2019
The authors evaluated data of more than 2000 persons to compare demographic, clinical, and radiographic variables between patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), AS with psoriasis, axial psoriatic...
10/11/2019
bone density
bone density
10/10/2019
The authors compared baseline characteristics of persons with juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with and without lupus nephritis to identify clinical and laboratory predictors of lupus...
10/10/2019
osteoarthritis
osteoarthritis
10/09/2019
To assess the potential of sprifermin as a disease-modifying osteoarthritis agent, authors of the FORWARD randomized clinical trial evaluated the agent’s impact on femorotibial joint cartilage thickness...
10/09/2019
Pediatrics
Pediatrics
10/08/2019
The authors performed a systematic review of data of more than 1300 children to determine whether a positive ANA result could be useful for the diagnosis of autoimmune rheumatological conditions.
10/08/2019
bone density
bone density
09/26/2019
Researchers analyzed data from the FNIH Bone Quality Project to determine whether defining the surrogate threshold effect for bone mineral density change could identify a new regulatory pathway for...
09/26/2019
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis
09/25/2019
The United States Bone and Joint Initiative has released its report on the incidence and burden of osteoporosis in the United States. The findings were shared at the American Society for Bone and Mineral...
09/25/2019
bone density
bone density
09/23/2019
Authors of a study presented at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2019 Annual Meeting evaluated whether zoledronic acid infusion can prevent increases in bone turnover and bone loss among...
09/23/2019
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis
09/21/2019
Researchers determined whether a single dose of zoledronic acid could preserve improvements to bone mineral density that participants experienced in the DATA-HD study. Findings were presented at the...
09/21/2019