Early diagnosis ... by the Disease Activity in Psoriatic Arthritis (DAPSA) score; the mean (SD) DAPSA score was 17.5 (14.3) for patients with axPsA and 11.2 (7.4) for patients not diagnosed with PsA.

gene has likewise led to the perception that autoimmunity has a pivotal role in early psoriatic arthritis (PsA). However, this HLA-Cw0602 genetic association does not appear to hold for PsA or ...

Knowing triggers and early warning signs is key. When Julie Cerrone developed psoriatic arthritis (PsA), she didn’t know what it was. She’d had knee problems and chronic pain for years but wasn’t ...

For example, RA may cause scarring on the lungs that makes it hard to breathe. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory ...

But if you have psoriatic arthritis the decision requires additional considerations ... Ideally, you should discuss family planning issues with your rheumatologist early on, not just when you’ve ...

To elucidate this topic, we studied which baseline clinical characteristics ... in PSoriatic Arthritis (IRR=1.05, p=0.006) and swollen joint count (IRR=1.07, p=0.034) as predictors. Conclusions ...

Methods We used data collected in the Dutch southwest Early Psoriatic Arthritis cohoRt study to select patients ... Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of patients starting on MTX monotherapy ...