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Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Secukinumab in Giant Cell Arteritis: An Italian Multicenter Cohort Study. secukinumab治疗巨细胞动脉炎的有效性和安全性:一项意大利多中心队列研究
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80167
Luca Iorio, Federica Davanzo, Caterina Ricordi, Milena Bond, Ruggiero Mascolo, Jacopo Mora, Alessandro Tomelleri, Angelo Fassio, Francesca Cuzzocrea, Sara Monti, Edoardo Conticini, Fabiola Atzeni, Paolo Delvino, Carlotta Nannini, Augusta Ortolan, Francesco Pollastri, Ester Vivaldelli, Chiara Marvisi, Paola Toniati, Antonio Brucato, Alessandra Milanesi, Francesca Regola, Enrico Tombetti, Lorenzo Dagna, Roberta Ramonda, Christian Dejaco, Luca Quartuccio, Carlo Salvarani, Roberto Padoan
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Defining Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis in Routine Care: Comparative Performance of Published Criteria and Description of Early and Late Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis Phenotypes. 在常规护理中定义难治性类风湿关节炎:早期和晚期D2T-RA表型的公开标准和描述的比较性能
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-15 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80161
Rahaf Zyad Attar, Mohammad Movahedi, Angela Cesta, Pooneh Akhavan, Carter Thorne, Janet Pope, Timothy Kwok, Arthur Lau, Reza Mirza, Elliott Hepworth, Andrew Chow, Bindee Kuriya, Sibel Zehra Aydin
{"title":"Defining Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis in Routine Care: Comparative Performance of Published Criteria and Description of Early and Late Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis Phenotypes.","authors":"Rahaf Zyad Attar, Mohammad Movahedi, Angela Cesta, Pooneh Akhavan, Carter Thorne, Janet Pope, Timothy Kwok, Arthur Lau, Reza Mirza, Elliott Hepworth, Andrew Chow, Bindee Kuriya, Sibel Zehra Aydin","doi":"10.1002/acr.80161","DOIUrl":"10.1002/acr.80161","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Despite advances in treat-to-target strategies, a subset of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains refractory to multiple therapies and is classified as having difficult-to-treat RA (D2T-RA). Although EULAR has proposed classification criteria for D2T-RA, these patients remain variably identified in real-world practice because of heterogeneous applications. We aimed to compare the preformance of published applications of the EULAR D2T-RA criteria in a real-world RA cohort and to determine weather the timing of D2T-RA development could distinguish early from late D2T-RA phenotypes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using data from the Ontario Best Practices Research Initiative, a longitudinal real-world RA registry, we evaluated four literature-derived adaptations of the EULAR D2T-RA definition among patients initiating their first advanced therapy. These definitions differed in disease activity requirements, follow-up duration, and treatment count thresholds. We assessed prevalence, agreement between definitions, and explored different temporal anchors for classifying early versus late D2T-RA.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 1,121 patients with RA (mean age 56.0 years; 80.7% female; mean disease duration of 8.4 years), 202 (18%) fulfilled at least one of four D2T-RA definitions. Prevalence varied substantially across definitions, ranging from 5.5% (definition 4) to 11.7% (definition 2). Definitions 1 and 2, which incorporated multiple disease activity measures, identified the largest proportion of patients, whereas definition 4, which is defined solely by initiation of a third advanced therapy, was most restrictive. Overlap between definitions was modest, with only 44% of patients meeting all definitions 1 through 3, whereas definition 4 identified a distinct group with no overlap with the other definitions, suggesting that these classification approaches capture different patient subsets and are not interchangeable. In temporal analyses, anchoring the D2T-RA onset to the initiation of the first advanced therapy, a two-year threshold-selected for its clinical relevance and balanced group sizes-classified approximately 40% of patients as early and approximately 60% as late D2T-RA.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The applications of D2T-RA criteria are not interchangeable and vary widely in patient capture. A two-year threshold anchored to the first initiation of advanced therapy offered a clinically balanced early-late D2T-RA framework. Harmonized, multidimensional definitions incorporating disease activity and temporal stratification are needed to improve phenotyping, prognostication, and cross-study comparability.</p>","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148966331","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}
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Pain Phenotypes in Patients With Inflammatory Myopathies: A Latent Class Analysis. 炎症性肌病患者的疼痛表型:一个潜在的分类分析。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-15 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80164
Mohammad Radaideh, Duaa Husein, Almurtada Razok, Juan Schmukler, Alexander Best, Joshlean Fair, Manuel Lubinus, Yvonne C Lee, Didem Saygin
{"title":"Pain Phenotypes in Patients With Inflammatory Myopathies: A Latent Class Analysis.","authors":"Mohammad Radaideh, Duaa Husein, Almurtada Razok, Juan Schmukler, Alexander Best, Joshlean Fair, Manuel Lubinus, Yvonne C Lee, Didem Saygin","doi":"10.1002/acr.80164","DOIUrl":"10.1002/acr.80164","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Pain is a common and burdensome symptom in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). Our aim was to identify pain phenotypes in IIM that may reflect distinct underlying mechanisms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An anonymous electronic survey of patients with self-reported IIM and pain attributable to myositis was circulated. The survey included questions related to demographics, IIM-related information, pain characteristics, and the Fibromyalgia Survey Questionnaire. Latent class analysis (LCA) was performed using four variables, including distribution, pattern, difference in pain during myositis flare versus now, and disease duration. Class validity was assessed using pain characteristics, fibromyalgia criteria fulfillment, and symptom burden.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 426 participants were included. LCA identified four classes: (i) class 1: proximal arm- and leg-predominant pain and lowest persistent pain, (ii) class 2: diffuse axial and proximal limb-predominant pain, (iii) class 3: diffuse axial and distal leg-predominant pain, and (iv) class 4: widespread axial and extremity pain and the highest persistent pain. In post hoc analyses, class 1 primarily included participants with earlier IIM and a lower rate of fibromyalgia. Class 2 and 3 included participants with intermediate fibromyalgia symptom burden, and class 4 included participants with the highest pain intensity and fibromyalgia.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this large international cohort of patients with self-reported IIM and pain, we identified four different pain phenotypes. These phenotypes range from a localized, disease-related nociceptive pattern to a widespread, fibromyalgia-like nociplastic pattern. Our findings highlight the heterogeneity of myositis-related pain and may inform future mechanistic studies and phenotype-directed management strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13592523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148966399","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}
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Incidence, Risk Factors and Management of Adverse Events in Contemporary Real-World Care of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. 青少年特发性关节炎儿童的发生率、危险因素和不良事件管理。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80162
Bashayer Alnuaimi, Roberta A Berard, Jean-Philippe Proulx-Gauthier, Heinrike Schmeling, Michelle Batthish, Gilles Boire, Adam M Huber, Dax G Rumsey, Jaime Guzman, Gaëlle Chédeville
{"title":"Incidence, Risk Factors and Management of Adverse Events in Contemporary Real-World Care of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.","authors":"Bashayer Alnuaimi, Roberta A Berard, Jean-Philippe Proulx-Gauthier, Heinrike Schmeling, Michelle Batthish, Gilles Boire, Adam M Huber, Dax G Rumsey, Jaime Guzman, Gaëlle Chédeville","doi":"10.1002/acr.80162","DOIUrl":"10.1002/acr.80162","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We describe the frequency, risk factors, severity, and management of actionable and serious adverse events (AAE and SAE) in children with newly diagnosed Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in Canada.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We enrolled patients within 3 months of JIA diagnosis in the Canadian Alliance of Pediatric Rheumatology Investigators (CAPRI) Registry, an ongoing prospective registry-based cohort study. At every clinic visit, clinicians reported AAEs since the previous visit, their severity and actions undertaken. We calculated proportion of patients and visits with an event, events rates per 100 patient-years (PY), and used Kaplan-Meir and Cox regression analysis to estimate first AAE risk and assess associated risk factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 964 patients followed for 2,046 PY, AAEs occurred in 39.0% of patients (34.9 per 100PY) and SAEs in 3.4% (2.0 per 100PY). Gastrointestinal symptoms linked to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and methotrexate (MTX) were most common (56.4%). In adjusted analyses, active disease, subcutaneous MTX (HR 3.27, p<0.001), oral MTX (HR 2.08, p<0.001), and NSAID (HR 2.17, p<0.001) were associated with increased AAE risk, while biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (bDMARDs) were associated with decreased risk (HR 0.46, p<0.001). Forty SAEs occurred, including 16 infections with hospitalization and one malignancy, mostly in patients not receiving bDMARDs. There were no deaths, demyelinating conditions, or opportunistic infections.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this real-practice JIA cohort, AAEs were reported in 2 of 5 patients and most were mild events related to NSAID and MTX. SAEs were rare with no deaths and few major complications.</p>","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148963024","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}
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Examining the Interchangeability of Two Different Patient-Reported Global Assessment Measures in an Observational Axial Spondyloarthritis Cohort. 在观察性轴性脊柱炎队列中检查两种不同患者报告的总体评估措施的互换性。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80163
Connor Vershel, Seokhun Kim, Lianne S Gensler, Matthew A Brown, Michael H Weisman, Mariko L Ishimori, Michael Ward, John D Reveille, Mark C Hwang
{"title":"Examining the Interchangeability of Two Different Patient-Reported Global Assessment Measures in an Observational Axial Spondyloarthritis Cohort.","authors":"Connor Vershel, Seokhun Kim, Lianne S Gensler, Matthew A Brown, Michael H Weisman, Mariko L Ishimori, Michael Ward, John D Reveille, Mark C Hwang","doi":"10.1002/acr.80163","DOIUrl":"10.1002/acr.80163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The goal of this study was to determine if patient global assessment (PGA) scores reported by patients with axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) before the development of the AxSpA Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) can be used as a substitute for the global item of the ASDAS formula.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the Prospective Study of Outcomes in Ankylosing Spondylitis (PSOAS) observational cohort were analyzed. Patients completed a questionnaire during visits to assess disease activity. Before the development of ASDAS, global disease activity was rated on a numeric scale with the prompt, \"Considering all the ways that your ankylosing spondylitis affects you, rate how you are doing.\" The ASDAS global prompt instead asks, \"How active was your spondylitis on average during the last week?\" We calculated the ASDAS based on the original PGA of the PSOAS cohort (PSOAS-PGA) and the standard ASDAS-PGA. Then, we compared ASDAS disease activity categories between the two values and calculated weighted Cohen's κ coefficients. We also compared the older versus newer global single-item scores with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 610 unique patient visits were analyzed. The proportion of agreement of ASDAS calculated with the PSOAS-PGA compared to the ASDAS-PGA was 86.7% based on disease activity categories with Cohen's κ coefficient of 0.818. The ICC was calculated using a two-way mixed-effects model and was 0.980, consistent with excellent agreement.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Prior measures of PGA used before the validation of ASDAS are a valid substitution for the PGA in the ASDAS based on calculation of a κ coefficient showing excellent agreement.</p>","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148963055","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}
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Tele-rheumatology. The risk related to diagnostic and therapeutic decisions based on purposely incomplete, unvetted examination reports: comment on the article by Zickuhr et al. Tele-rheumatology。风险与基于故意不完整、未经审查的检查报告的诊断和治疗决定有关。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80158
Bruce Rothschild
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Methodological Considerations in ICI-Myositis Research: Immortal Time Bias and Diagnostic Standardization. ici -肌炎研究的方法学考虑:不朽的时间偏差和诊断标准化。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-13 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80153
Daming Shao, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Anne R Bass, Pankti Reid
{"title":"Methodological Considerations in ICI-Myositis Research: Immortal Time Bias and Diagnostic Standardization.","authors":"Daming Shao, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Anne R Bass, Pankti Reid","doi":"10.1002/acr.80153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.80153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148963037","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}
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Beyond the Usual Suspects: A Teenager's Diagnostic Odyssey. 超越通常的怀疑:一个青少年的诊断奥德赛。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-08 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80160
Rasha M Elrefai, Jessica Nguyen, Dawn Gist, Lisa F Satter, Amanda Grimes, Marietta De Guzman
{"title":"Beyond the Usual Suspects: A Teenager's Diagnostic Odyssey.","authors":"Rasha M Elrefai, Jessica Nguyen, Dawn Gist, Lisa F Satter, Amanda Grimes, Marietta De Guzman","doi":"10.1002/acr.80160","DOIUrl":"10.1002/acr.80160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148910684","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}
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Elevated Liver Enzymes Is Not an Impediment to Allopurinol Dose Escalation: An Observational Cohort Study. 肝酶升高不是别嘌呤醇剂量增加的障碍:一项观察性队列研究。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80157
May Shuen Tang, Qai Ven Yap, Peter Pak Moon Cheung, Amelia Santosa, Gim Gee Teng
{"title":"Elevated Liver Enzymes Is Not an Impediment to Allopurinol Dose Escalation: An Observational Cohort Study.","authors":"May Shuen Tang, Qai Ven Yap, Peter Pak Moon Cheung, Amelia Santosa, Gim Gee Teng","doi":"10.1002/acr.80157","DOIUrl":"10.1002/acr.80157","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Routine liver enzyme monitoring is advocated for while on allopurinol, but supporting guidance is lacking. We assessed the incidence and factors associated with elevated liver enzyme levels in patients with gout commenced on allopurinol.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>One hundred and fifty patients with gout and normal baseline serum aminotransferases initiated on allopurinol were followed prospectively over three visits. Raised transaminase levels were defined as mild, moderate, or severe if aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels were raised less than two, two to three, or more than three times above upper normal limits, respectively. Predictors of AST/ALT elevation were assessed using generalized estimating equations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean age was 56.6 years, and 95.3% were men. Median follow-up was 33.5 (interquartile range 22.8-53.1) weeks. A total of 32 (21.5%) drank alcohol, 43 (28.9%) were obese, and 11 (7.3%) had metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Thirty (20.0%) developed raised AST/ALT levels during follow-up, the majority (86.7%) being mild, while none were severe. Allopurinol was maintained or increased in 18 out of 19 patients with raised serum aminotransferase levels at visit 2. Their elevated AST/ALT levels remained stable (27.8%), improved (11.1%), or resolved (33.3%) at subsequent visit. None had worsening AST/ALT levels. Multivariate analysis revealed that alcohol consumption (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 3.52, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.41-8.79) and statin nonuse (adjusted OR 3.41, 95% CI 1.04-11.17) were independent predictors of raised transaminase levels. Higher allopurinol dose was not associated with development of liver enzyme elevation (P = 0.193).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Mild asymptomatic AST/ALT elevation is common among patients with gout and is not influenced by allopurinol dose escalation. Alcohol consumption was an independent risk factor for elevated liver enzyme levels, whereas statin use appeared protective. Allopurinol can be safely escalated despite mild-moderate serum aminotransferase elevation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8406,"journal":{"name":"Arthritis Care & Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148900071","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}
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Microvascular Damage Is Associated With Carotid Wall Structural Changes in Systemic Sclerosis: A Capillaroscopy and Ultrasound-Based Observational Study. 微血管损伤与系统性硬化症颈动脉壁结构改变有关:一项基于毛细血管镜和超声的观察性研究。
IF 4.1 2区 医学
Arthritis Care & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/acr.80156
Eugenio Capparelli, Luca Clerici, Francesco Lapia, Giusy C Moltisanti, Eleonora Zaccara, Greta Pellegrino, Daniela Bompane, Francesca Capelli, Letizia Ferrami, Laura Castelnovo, Antonio Tamburello, Maria Sole Chimenti, Paola Faggioli, Antonino Mazzone
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