antibodies to proteus in irish patients with rheumatoid arthritis

... articular involvement (8 patients) , and group 2, comprising patients without articular involvement (31 patients) To compare the prevalence of anti-CCP antibodies in HCV patients with that in patients ... presenting with rheumatic manifestations: a mimic of rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 1996, 23:979-983 17 Toubi E, Zuckerman E, Kessel A, Rozenbaum M, Rosner I: IgA rheumatoid factor in patients with ... importance in establishing the correct treatment to prevent joint erosions in patients with ‘true’ RA as well as chronic HCV infection and reducing the risk of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with...

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... al.: The epitopes targeted by the rheumatoid arthritis- associated antifilaggrin autoantibodies are posttranslationally generated on various sites of (pro)filaggrin by deimination of arginine residues ... Jevnikar AM, Bell DA, Cairns E: Cutting edge: the conversion of arginine to citrulline allows for a high-affinity peptide interaction with the rheumatoid arthritis- associated HLA-DRB1*0401 MHC ... haplotypes of PADI4, encoding citrullinating enzyme peptidylarginine deiminase 4, are associated with rheumatoid arthritis Nat Genet 2003, 34:395-402 Hoppe B, Heymann GA, Tolou F, Kiesewetter H,...

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... incidence ratio Figure Relative risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with the general population CI, confidence interval; DMARDs, lymphoma in patients with ... Jr: Incidence of cancer among patients with rheumatoid arthritis J Natl Cancer Inst 1993, 85:307-311 Kauppi M, Pukkala E, Isomaki H: Excess risk of lung cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis ... MB: Occurrence of neoplasia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis enrolled in a DMARD Registry Rheumatoid Arthritis Azathioprine Registry Steering Committee J Rheumatol 1991, 18:809-814 McKendry...

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... failure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2007, 66:76-80 Bibbins-Domingo K, Ansari M, Schiller NB, Massie B, Whooley MA: B-type natriuretic peptide and ischemia in patients with ... identified in our study is a consequence of the inflammatory nature of ventricular remodelling Patients with RA are not only exposed to systemic inflammation from their Available online http:/ /arthritis- research.com/content/10/3/R70 ... NT-proBNP in this cross-sectional and longitudinal study of 238 patients with RA Further studies are needed to elucidate how this biomarker can be implemented in clinical decision making in RA Competing...

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... quality of life in early rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2006, 33:1936-1941 Lindqvist E, Saxne T, Geborek P, Eberhardt K: Ten year outcome in a cohort of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: ... Organization and International League of Associations for Rheumatology core endpoints for symptom modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials J Rheumatol Suppl 1994, ... HAQ section to evaluate functional capacity, is the most commonly used instrument for assessing disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) The HAQ-DI is a predictive factor of future...

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... YKL-40 in both patients with RA and healthy controls Our findings indicate that the g.-131(C > G) polymorphism is the main contributor to the inter-individual variation of serum YKL-40 in Caucasian ... of rheumatoid arthritis Curr Opin Rheumatol 2006, 18:141-146 Robert M, Plengea B: Recent progress in rheumatoid arthritis genetics: one step towards improved patient care Curr Opin Rheumatol ... progression in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis Scand J Rheumatol 2000, 29:391-393 Matsumoto T, Tsurumoto T: Serum YKL-40 levels in rheumatoid arthritis: correlations between clinical and laborarory...

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... antiCCP and ESR This finding adds to the understanding of antiCCP and ESR as important predictors of bone involvement in RA The bone involvement in RA has been shown to start in the inflamed synovium ... treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: published evidence and prospective trial data Ann Rheum Dis 2006, 65:285-293 24 Schorn D, Mowat AG: Penicillamine in rheumatoid arthritis: wound healing, skin thickness ... receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL), a cytokine known to mediate osteoclast differentiation and activation [1,2] Expressed in increased amounts and up-regulated by cytokines...

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... used to diagnose RA Citrullinated vimentin is present in synovial membranes and is released in increased amounts in response to growth factors and proinflammatory cytokines, suggesting involvement ... Consortium on Rheumatoid Arthritis Families: Rheumatoid arthritis seropositive for the rheumatoid factor is linked to the protein tyrosine phosphatase nonreceptor 22–620 W allele Arthritis Res ... van Venrooij WJ: The antiperinuclear factor (APF) and antikeratin Abs (AKA) in rheumatoid arthritis In Rheumatoid Arthritis Edited by: Smolen J, Kalden J Berlin: Springer-Verlag; 1992:299-318...

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... Okamoto H, Yamamura M, Morita Y, Harada S, Makino H, Ota Z: The synovial expression and serum levels of interleukin-6, interleukin-11, leukemia inhibitory factor, and oncostatin M in rheumatoid arthritis ... A point mutation of Tyr-759 in interleukin family cytokine receptor subunit gp130 causes autoimmune arthritis J Exp Med 2002, 196:979-990 Fujimoto M, Naka T: Regulation of cytokine signaling ... of blocking interleukin-6 activity with an anti-interleukin-6 receptor monoclonal antibody in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation trial Arthritis...

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... the physician’s clinical judgement of response to infliximab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients: validation of the DAS28 score in patients under infliximab treatment Arthritis Res Ther ... adjustment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis not optimally responding to a standard dose of infliximab of mg/kg every weeks can be effective: a Belgian prospective study Rheumatology 2005, ... disease activity scores that include twenty-eight-joint counts: development and validation in a prospective longitudinal study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1995, 38:44-48...

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... cancer) Patients were examined by taking history, physical examination, and laboratory findings (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein [CRP], rheumatoid factor, anti-nuclear antibodies, ... Figure Influence of catecholamines on cytokine ratios and intracellular interferon (IFN)-γ expression in healthy donors (HDs) (white bars) and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (gray bars) rheumatoid ... catecholamines shift the cytokine profile toward a Th2-dominated cytokine environment in HDs, the IFN-γ/IL-10 ratio or IFN-γ/IL-4 ratio does not change after coincubation with EPI in patients with...

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... adjust- Table Clinical characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and control subjects Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (n = 89) Patients with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis ... clear in younger patients, women, and patients with inflammatory diseases [11,12] For example, in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), another rheumatic disease associated with increased ... EW: Cardiovascular risk factors in women with and without rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 2004, 50:3444-3449 Dessein PH, Joffe BI, Stanwix AE: Inflammation, insulin resistance, and aberrant...

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... changes in BMD values Discussion To our knowledge, this appears to be the first study to examine the effect of infliximab on BMD in RA patients and to compare the findings with those in a control ... observed in clinical nonresponders to infliximab is in accordance with the findings of a recent study [8] that demonstrated protective effects on joint destruction in the absence of clinical response ... Lems WF: Evaluation of bone mineral density, bone metabolism, osteoprotegerin and RANKL serum levels during treatment with infliximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2006,...

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... Preliminary definition of improvement in rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1995, 38:727-735 Ekdahl C, Eberhardt K, Andersson SI, Svensson B: Assessing disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis ... role of oxLDL in promoting the chronic inflammation present in RA, but it is interesting to note that oxLDL is present in foam cells in synovia from patients with RA [47], indicating that oxLDL ... decreased levels of antibodies to beta-lacto globulin and gliadin in patients with RA [19] In the present study, we addressed the effect of a glutenfree vegan diet on risk factors, including blood lipids,...

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... used to diagnose RA Citrullinated vimentin is present in synovial membranes and is released in increased amounts in response to growth factors and proinflammatory cytokines, suggesting involvement ... Consortium on Rheumatoid Arthritis Families: Rheumatoid arthritis seropositive for the rheumatoid factor is linked to the protein tyrosine phosphatase nonreceptor 22–620 W allele Arthritis Res ... van Venrooij WJ: The antiperinuclear factor (APF) and antikeratin Abs (AKA) in rheumatoid arthritis In Rheumatoid Arthritis Edited by: Smolen J, Kalden J Berlin: Springer-Verlag; 1992:299-318...

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... which is in line with earlier reports [16] This fact might contribute to the increased presence of risk factors for CVD in the patients with rheumatoid cachexia In the present cohort of patients ... associated with less body cell mass in women with rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2004, 31:23-29 Elkan AC, Engvall IL, Tengstrand B, Cederholm T, Hafstrom I: Malnutrition in women with rheumatoid arthritis ... I: Cachexia in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with inflammatory activity, physical disability, and low bioavailable insulin-like growth factor Scand J Rheumatol 2008, 37:1-8 Baylin A, Kabagambe...

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... recent studies indicate that the CPT provokes increases in cortisol and norepinepherine as well as producing increases in pro-inflammatory cytokine production [16,17] In the present protocol, participants ... capacity to determine the causal links between RA disease processes and cytokine reactivity to pain It is possible, for example, that pre-existing individual differences in pro-inflammatory cytokine ... example, in contrast to pain as a stressor, exercise stress does not induce cortisol increases in either RA patients or controls [48] However, an insulin tolerance stress test resulted in a finding...

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... gastric/colorectal cancer in 2/419 patients with a chronic gastrointestinal disease vs 3/4579 in the remaining patients (P = 0.06), and for bladder cancer/renal cancer in 1/163 patients with chronic renal ... matched to controls with the same smoking status and patients with missing information regarding smoking status were matched to controls who also had no smoking status data After matching for eight ... provided in the following analyses for patients receiving anti-TNFα agents and patients receiving anakinra Patients with a prior malignancy were insignificantly less frequently treated with anti-TNFα...

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... affected in these patients Goldenberg [5] reported that joint outcome is poor in rheumatoid arthritis patients compared to non -rheumatoid patients In addition patients with rheumatoid arthritis ... there is a higher incidence of infection in those individuals ingesting exogenous steroids [5], although 50% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who developed polyarticular septic arthritis (PASA) ... Infectious arthritis complicating rheumatoid arthritis and other chronic rheumatic disorders Arthritis Rheum 1989, 32(4):496-502 Gardner GC, Weisman MH: Pyarthrosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: ...

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... re-grouped within the Satisfaction with self-injection domain, because these items correlated highly with the factor that represented this domain The Willingness to continue to self-inject concept ... comfortable is the injection? DELETED 22 After this study, would you choose to continue self-injecting your medication? Willingness to continue to self-inject Satisfaction with self-injection 23 After ... about injections domain (items and 2) was expanded to include item from the hypothetical Feelings about giving self-injections domain and was renamed Feelings about injections in the refined version...

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