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Platelet-rich plasma injections show no benefit in knee OA in placebo-controlled trial
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- Bianca Nogrady
Platelet-rich plasma injections for mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis show no improvements in pain, function, or cartilage structure, compared...
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High tibial osteotomy achieves sustained improvements in knee OA
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- Bianca Nogrady
Medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy is associated with improvements in pain and function in knee osteoarthritis.
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Which comes first in osteoarthritis: The damage or the pain?
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- Bianca Nogrady
Osteoarthritis experts debate whether pain is the result of joint damage or a cause of it.
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Stable, supportive shoes reduce walking pain in severe knee OA
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- Bianca Nogrady
Stable, supportive footwear achieved greater reductions in knee osteoarthritis pain than did flat, flexible shoes.
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Insoles or braces show best pain relief for knee OA
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- Bianca Nogrady
Meta-analysis finds low-quality evidence for biochemical interventions but favors combination insoles or braces for knee OA.
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Intramuscular glucocorticoid injections seen as noninferior to intra-articular in knee OA
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- Bianca Nogrady
Intramuscular injections of glucocorticoids achieve a level of pain reduction similar to that of intra-articular injections in patients with knee...
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Weight cycling linked to cartilage degeneration in knee OA
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- Bianca Nogrady
Patterns of significant weight loss and gain are associated with more cartilage and bone marrow edema degeneration in patients with knee...
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Renal, cardiovascular damage may develop in mild SLE despite treatment
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- Bianca Nogrady
An increase in disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with significant increases in the risk of renal and cardiovascular...
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Outcomes have improved for PAH in connective tissue disease
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- Bianca Nogrady
Modern treatments and combination approaches may have contributed to overall improvements in survival in patients with pulmonary arterial...
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Tocilizumab may improve lung function in early systemic sclerosis
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- Bianca Nogrady
Treatment with tocilizumab may improve lung function in patients with interstitial lung disease associated with systemic sclerosis.
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Osteoporosis prevalence in PsA similar to general population
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- Bianca Nogrady
In this longitudinal cohort study, none of the factors associated with a higher likelihood of having a bone mineral density (BMD) test were...
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Etanercept may not help some with suspected nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis
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- Bianca Nogrady
Patients with suspected nr-axSpA who do not have positive MRI signs of sacroiliitis and/or elevated CRP levels may not achieve clinical benefit...
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Synovial, skin gene expression differences may explain PsA treatment responses
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- Bianca Nogrady
Different expression of genes in the synovial tissue and skin in people with psoriatic arthritis may affect their response to treatment.
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Genetics and epigenetics could predict response to RA therapies
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- Bianca Nogrady
An individual patient’s genetic and epigenetic profile could predict whether they are likely to respond to certain rheumatoid arthritis treatments...
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Trabecular bone loss may contribute to axial spondyloarthritis progression
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- Bianca Nogrady
Severe trabecular bone loss is associated with syndesmophyte formation in axial spondyloarthritis.