A new study suggests that following the Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis ...

The questions that we had were: Men like to smoke more, that's a risk factor for developing some types of interstitial lung disease. Are they showing up to even recognize that they are sick in a ...

Among patients with RA, ACPA status significantly modifies the relationship between BMI and cardiovascular risk.

Vaccines and ongoing vigilance are critical to prevent and manage infections in patients who are immunosuppressed or ...

We sought to evaluate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a cohort of patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency would be associated with an ...

The incubation period in humans after oral exposure ranges from 15 to 50 days with an average of 28 days, [8] but the route and mechanism by which the virus reaches the liver from the intestinal ...

Smoking is not dose-specific It doesn’t matter whether you smoke one or ten cigarettes, each cigarette is a risk factor. Smoking is not dose-specific. A study by the American Heart Association found ...

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These treatments include tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor drugs that are available ... Etanercept was the first such biologic, approved in 1998 to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) via SC injection ...