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For patients on glucocorticoid therapy, a delay in anti-osteoporosis treatment initiation may lead to increased fracture events, while early treatment helps to prevent them, a study has found.

Moderate physical activity (PA) appears to help in reducing the risk of hyperuricaemia, according to a study in a multiethnic Chinese population. In addition, decreasing sedentary time (ST) appears to be more beneficial in women than in men.

In patients with Takayasu arteritis, calculating the carotid intima-media thickness (IMT)/diameter ratio (IDR) and peak systolic velocity (PSV) may be useful in identifying neurological severe ischaemic events (SIEs), suggests a study.

Treatment with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) in patients with early axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) appears to put brakes on radiographic sacroiliitis progression, according to a study.

A Singapore study has found an association between the presence of anti-DFS70 and a false-positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) test in 8.6 percent of its patients. Moreover, anti-DFS70 shows no association with the absence of systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease (SARD).

Exposure to particulate matter (PM) ≤2.5 µm and sulphur dioxide (SO2) contributes to an increased risk of Kawasaki disease in children, a study has found.