Handgrip strength (HGS) is associated with several chronic diseases, cognitive decline,
length of hospital-stay, and mortality. More importantly, HGS is one of the diagnostic criteria …

Background and Purpose: One use of clinical measures is the prediction of future outcomes.
The purpose of this systematic review was to summarize the literature addressing the value …

A literature search was carried out to identify and summarize the existing information on
causes and consequences of comorbidity of chronic somatic diseases. A selection of 82 …

Objective To compare the incidence of cardiovascular (CV) events in persons with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with that in people from the general population, adjusting for …

Rheumatoid arthritis is characterised by pain, swelling, and destruction of joints, with
resultant disability. Only disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs can interfere with the …

Recent years have seen considerable advances in our understanding of both the clinical
and basic-research aspects of rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical progress has come from a better …

Background Methotrexate is the most frequent choice of disease-modifying antirheumatic
therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. Although results of studies have shown the efficacy of such …

Objective To determine whether systemic inflammation confers any additional risk for
cardiovascular death among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after adjusting for …

Over the last 2 decades, assessment of patient health status has undergone a dramatic
paradigm shift, evolving from a predominant reliance on biochemical and physical …

Recent studies have revealed novel forms of cell death beyond the canonical types of
cellular apoptosis and necrosis, and these novel forms of cell death are induced by extreme …