Autoimmune And Rheumatic Diseases

For the seventh consecutive year, Johns Hopkins has been named the best hospital for rheumatology in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

All rheumatology research projects should include at least two patient partners, supported by a designated coordinator, who collaborate as equals with researchers, according to new EULAR recommendations.

Men are more than twice as likely than women to develop IgG4-related disease, and demonstrate “striking” sex-dependent organ distribution and B-cell response, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Patients with long COVID symptoms demonstrate elevated levels of several inflammatory molecules — findings that could have important implications in both rheumatology and the search for a potential treatment for long COVID.

Nearly one-quarter of outpatient visits by patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases in the United States between 2006 and 2019 resulted in an opioid prescription, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

The most efficacious targeted therapies for VEXAS syndrome are Janus kinase inhibitors and interleukin-6 inhibitors, while IL-1 and TNF blockers are less effective, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

In this video exclusive, Leonard Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, highlights what he describes as “an outstanding roundtable” in the June issue on advanced practice providers’ expanding role in rheumatology care.

This month’s featured roundtable on the evolving and broadening role of advanced practice providers in rheumatologic care is a timely discussion, and I give a big thanks to Carrie Beach, BSN, RN-BC; Jeffrey Curtis, MD, MS, MPH; Amanda Mixon, PA-C; Kenneth G. Saag, MD; and Christine Stamatos, DNP, ANP-C.

The number, and role, of advanced practice providers in rheumatology care is exploding.

A possible genetic rationale for why women acquire more autoimmune diseases than men has been discovered, according to findings published recently in Cell.