Melanie H Smith, Zilong Bai, Amit Lakhanpal, Daniel Ramirez, Edward DiCarlo, Laura Donlin, Dana Orange, Susan M Goodman
{"title":"Characterizing molecular targets in difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis.","authors":"Melanie H Smith, Zilong Bai, Amit Lakhanpal, Daniel Ramirez, Edward DiCarlo, Laura Donlin, Dana Orange, Susan M Goodman","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152588"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142740429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smoking-related bias of standardized mortality ratios in rheumatoid arthritis: A modeling study","authors":"Michael M. Ward","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are age- and sex-matched to the general population, but may be biased because smoking is more common in the RA group. This modeling study used national mortality data on smokers and non-smokers to estimate the effect on SMRs of the higher smoking prevalences typically found in RA.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Data from the United States National Health Interview Surveys 1999–2004 were used to create hypothetical cohorts with an age-sex composition typical of patients with RA (age 30 to 79; 70 % women). The reference cohort had the smoking prevalence of the general population (21.8 % current smokers). Additional cohorts were created that had higher proportions of smokers, approximating the prevalence of smoking commonly present in RA, with smoking relative risks of 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, and 2.0 compared to the reference cohort. SMRs were computed on 2000 replicate samples in which mortality over 10 years and 15 years was compared between the higher-smoking simulated RA cohorts and the reference cohort.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The reference cohort had a prevalence of current smoking of 21.8 %. In a hypothetical RA cohort with a higher smoking prevalence, equal to a smoking relative risk of 2.0 compared to the general population, the median SMR for RA was 1.23 at 10 years and 1.17 at 15 years. At a smoking prevalence equivalent to a relative risk of 1.25, the median SMR for RA was 1.07 at 10 years and 1.04 at 15 years. Results were similar for SMRs based on relative risks that compared ever smokers to never smokers. Differences in smoking intensity between the hypothetical RA groups and reference cohorts had small effects on SMRs.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>SMRs in RA may be inflated by even small increases in the prevalence of smoking relative to the general population. In these cases, an SMR benchmark of 1.0 to represent equal mortality outcomes would be too strict.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 152599"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aishwarya Anilkumar , Matthew Wells , Robyn T Domsic , Laura K Hummers , Ami A Shah , John D Pauling
{"title":"The pathogenesis, diagnostic utility and clinical relevance of cutaneous telangiectasia in systemic sclerosis","authors":"Aishwarya Anilkumar , Matthew Wells , Robyn T Domsic , Laura K Hummers , Ami A Shah , John D Pauling","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152593","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152593","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cutaneous telangiectasia (Tel) are visible permanently dilated postcapillary dermal venules and are one of the most common disease-specific manifestations of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Telangiectasia have long been recognised for their utility in the diagnosis and classification of SSc, but the clinical and prognostic relevance of these aberrant cutaneous vascular manifestations has been somewhat neglected by clinicians. Similarly, the impact of SSc-Tel on body image dissatisfaction and social discomfort has been under-appreciated. The paucity of evidence-based approaches to management has limited access to potential effective treatments for SSc-Tel. The present review examines the pathogenesis, diagnostic value, impact and clinical relevance of telangiectasia in SSc. We highlight the potentially overlooked prognostic value and clinical utility of SSc-Tel, as part of a broader appraisal of areas of unmet research need.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 152593"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariangela Salvato, Andrea Doria, Alessandro Giollo
{"title":"The overlooked epidemic: Fibromyalgia in the shadows of long COVID.","authors":"Mariangela Salvato, Andrea Doria, Alessandro Giollo","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152596","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152596"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142695908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michel GCAM Mertens , Sander MJ van Kuijk , Laura WME Beckers , Fredrick Zmudzki , Bjorn Winkens , Rob JEM Smeets
{"title":"Prediction models for treatment success after an interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment program","authors":"Michel GCAM Mertens , Sander MJ van Kuijk , Laura WME Beckers , Fredrick Zmudzki , Bjorn Winkens , Rob JEM Smeets","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152592","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152592","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) poses a widespread health and socioeconomic problem, being the most prevalent chronic pain condition. Interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment (IMPT) is considered the gold standard, offering cost-effective long-term care. Unfortunately, only a subset of patients experiences clinically relevant improvements in pain, fatigue, and disability post-IMPT. Establishing a prediction model encompassing various outcome measures could enhance rehabilitation and personalized healthcare. Thus, the aim was to develop and validate a prediction model for IMPT success in patients with CMP. A prospective cohort study within routine care was performed, including patients with CMP undergoing a 10-week IMPT. Success across four outcome measures was determined: patients' recovery perspective, quality of life (physical and mental), and disability. Sixty-five demographic and candidate predictors (mainly patient reported outcome measures) were examined. Finally, 2309 patients participated, with IMPT success rates ranging from 30% to 57%. Four models incorporating 33 predictors were developed, with treatment control being the sole consistent predictor across all models. Additionally, predictors effects varied in direction in the models. All models demonstrated strong calibration, fair to good discrimination, and were internally validated (optimism-corrected AUC range 0.69–0.80). Our findings show that treatment success can be predicted using standardized patient-reported measures, exhibiting strong discriminatory power. However, predictors vary depending on the outcome, underscoring the importance of selecting the appropriate measure upfront. Clinically, these results suggest potential for patient-centered care and may contribute to the development of a scientifically sound decision tool.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 152592"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142693553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immune checkpoint inhibitors and rheumatoid arthritis: All roads lead to PD-1?","authors":"Laura C Cappelli","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immune checkpoint molecules like PD-1 and its ligand PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are important regulators of the immune system. Medications blocking these pathways, immune checkpoint inhibitors, have been used to treat a variety of malignancies, while drugs agonizing these pathways, like abatacept, have been used in treating autoimmune diseases. Modulation of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis has become important for rheumatologists to understand in several different clinical scenarios. Currently, PD-1 agonists are being developed for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In addition to patients with RA being potentially treated with PD-1 agonists, patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be treated with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors if they develop cancer. Finally, patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors may develop de novo inflammatory arthritis and be referred to rheumatology for management. In all three scenarios, there remain many unanswered clinical and translational questions. The parallel development of therapeutics antagonizing and agonizing the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway presents a unique chance for discovery in inflammatory arthritis.</p>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152582"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142693552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rheumatoid arthritis prevention: We need to identify new targets for \"NextGen\" therapeutic trials.","authors":"V Michael Holers","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152577","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>None.</p>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152577"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142648635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathryne E Marks, Alice Horisberger, Daniel H Solomon, Deepak A Rao
{"title":"Defining immune cell phenotypes that distinguish treatment responders and non-responders in RA.","authors":"Kathryne E Marks, Alice Horisberger, Daniel H Solomon, Deepak A Rao","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152581","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p> .</p>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152581"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142676472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: Advancing the identification and management.","authors":"Bryant R England","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152578","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that causes substantial morbidity and mortality. Effective, evidence-based strategies to screen for, and manage, RA-ILD are lacking.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Highlight recent research advances in, and further opportunities to improve, the identification and management of RA-ILD.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The goals of RA-ILD screening are early disease detection while avoiding unnecessary testing. Such an approach requires the ability to accurate risk stratify RA patients. With only a few recognized clinical risk factors for RA-ILD, a growing body of evidence on peripheral biomarkers for RA-ILD appears well suited to support a precision medicine approach. There is a paucity of evidence to guide management after RA-ILD diagnosis. While initial trials of antifibrotics have been conducted in RA-ILD and show the potential to slow the rate of pulmonary function decline, there have been no randomized trials of immunomodulatory therapies in RA-ILD. Supporting such trials, and addressing the barriers to conducting them, is a high priority.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Robust characterization of peripheral biomarkers in large, RA populations is essential to inform a precision medicine approach to RA-ILD identification. Randomized trials of treatments and treatment strategies that consider the systemic nature of RA-ILD are necessary to inform evidence-based RA-ILD treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152578"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142639709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can we modulate the gut microbiome to enhance DMARD efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis?","authors":"Rebecca B Blank, Renuka R Nayak, Jose U Scher","doi":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21715,"journal":{"name":"Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism","volume":" ","pages":"152583"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142648634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}