Difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (D2T-RA) affects approximately 1 in 9 patients with RA worldwide, with nearly half of these cases demonstrating persistent inflammatory ref ...

Decreasing disease activity in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has long been the goal of medical treatment. But measuring when a person has met their goal — when symptoms are alleviated or at a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — The official EULAR definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis does not fully account for ...

Seronegative rheumatoid arthritis is a real condition where individuals have RA symptoms but test negative for rheumatoid factor (RF) and cyclic citrullinated peptides (CCP). Individuals with RA ...

Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory condition distinguished by the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-CCPs) or rheumatoid factors (RF) in the blood, leading ...

Brenda, 60, is in rheumatoid arthritis remission—but her journey to this point has been winding. After experiencing painful and swollen joints for several months, Brenda was diagnosed with rheumatoid ...

If you’re seronegative for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), you may or may not have RA. It can make it harder to get an RA diagnosis. Being seronegative for RA means that a blood test doesn’t find certain ...

Despite an expanding arsenal of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), many patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) still struggle to reach remission even ...

EULAR has published a definition of clinical characteristics for patients with arthralgia at risk for rheumatoid arthritis, according to a report. Patients with clinically suspect arthralgia (CSA) ...

Comparative effectiveness research in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that is based on administrative databases rather than electronic health records or registries is a new research frontier The strengths ...