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Patients with psoriatic arthritis who suffer from depression may experience higher levels of pain despite having similar amounts of inflammation as those without depression.

Published results showed Black men had the highest 30-day mortality rates after elective surgery compared with Black women, white men and white women.

Routinely ordering mycobacterial cultures for patients with periprosthetic joint infections is not cost-effective and testing is not necessary in most cases, according to a study.

Semi-automated quantitative joint space width at the 50-degree location is sensitive to change as a measure of hip joint space over time, and is associated with hip osteoarthritis in women, according to data.

BIIB059 significantly reduces total active joint counts among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, with a rate of serious adverse events and infection similar to placebo, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2020.

Among patients with gout, ultrasound scoring for crystal deposits demonstrates that treat-to-target with urate-lowering therapy results in significant reductions in all depositions, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.