Polymyalgia rheumatica should be diagnosed by a stepped diagnostic process using inclusion and exclusion criteria and careful assessment of response to low-dose prednisolone. Although ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory condition affecting elderly people and involving the girdles. [1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR ...

Exclusion Criteria: * Use of prohibited medications, as specified in the protocol * History of ongoing, chronic or recurrent infectious disease (i.e., human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B ...

possibly avoiding the need for more invasive diagnostic techniques, such as a temporal biopsy. The classification criteria for TAK focus on the detection of arterial stenosis and occlusions as ...

Abdominal obesity is a greater risk factor for psoriasis than total body fat, according to an analysis of imaging data, suggesting clinicians should consider treatments that also reduce ...

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