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'Up to half of RA patients in the United States use long-term glucocorticoids despite previous work suggesting they increase MACE in a dose-dependent way.'

Oligoarticular PsA can significantly affect quality of life even though few joints are affected, and there's a lack of relevant clinical data to guide treatment.

The draft recommendations are a 'good first step,' but more awareness around axial spondyloarthritis in the non-rheumatology community is also needed to improve diagnosis, one expert said.

Patients with rheumatic disease who continued TNF blockers during their pregnancy did not have an increased risk of worse fetal and maternal outcomes and had a lower risk of severe infection.

Efficacy, safety findings for the use of TNF inhibitors vs other biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in treating RA-ILD contrast with those of some smaller observational studies.