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Temporarily discontinuing methotrexate treatment for 1 week appears to induce satisfactory response to a seasonal influenza vaccine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with a similar effect as a 2-week interruption schedule, according to a study.

Combination therapy with methotrexate (MTX) plus etanercept (ETN) results in more improved outcomes in men than in women with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) for minimal disease activity (MDA) and Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity Score (PASDAS), a study has shown.

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients with moderate disease activity (MDA) at baseline who are treated with apremilast are more likely to achieve treatment targets than those with high disease activity (HDA), a recent study has shown.

Real-world patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who received and remained on secukinumab treatment for 6 months has attained minimal disease activity (MDA) and shown improvements in clinical manifestations, patient-reported outcomes, and work productivity at follow-up, reveals a study. The results are consistent with findings from clinical trials.

Several factors, including older age, overnight emergency department (ED) arrival time, higher serum urate (SU), higher C-reactive protein (CRP), and higher total white cell count at presentation, predict hospitalization for acute gout, according to a study.

Smoking, extra-articular manifestations (EAMs), and comorbidities are all associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality in hospitalized patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) than those in the comparison cohort, reports a study.

Isolated bronchiectasis (BR) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that is not caused by interstitial lung disease (ILD) is associated with seropositivity, older age at RA diagnosis, and lower body mass index (BMI) at RA onset, a recent study has found.

The Janus kinase inhibitor upadacitinib induces significantly higher response than placebo in ankylosing spondylitis patients with inadequate response to biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, without introducing new safety signals, according to data from a phase III trial.