A systematic literature review of 17 full publications and 17 meeting abstracts found that the 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria have a sensitivity of 0.82 (95% CI 0.79-0.84) and specificity of 0.61 (95% CI ...

The authors concluded that lowering the cut-off of the 2010 criteria from 6 points to 5 points identified 15% more patients with RA, at the expense of including 8% false-positive patients. Viewpoint ...

An example of a disease ripe for this type of intervention is rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, affecting around 1.3 million people in the United States.

With 1,445 RA patients and 4,335 matched controls and adjusting for standard cardiovascular risk factors, the hazard ratio for HFpEF was 1.99 in RA patients (95% CI 1.43-2.77), while the ...

No case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease, is the same. Now, researchers want RA diagnostic approaches to match its pathological diversity. From Uppsala University, scientists ...