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Arthritis
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NEWS:
About 21% of U.S. Adults Have Arthritis “That news appears in January's edition of Arthritis & Rheumatism, along with these figures: • Osteoarthritis: Nearly 27 million adults • Fibromyalgia: 5 million adults • Gout: 3 million adults had gout in the past year and 6 million had ever had gout • Rheumatoid arthritis: 1.3 million adults • Polymyalgia rheumatica: 711,000 adults • Sjogren's syndrome: Between 400,000 and 3.1 million adults • Juvenile arthritis: 294,000 children • Lupus: Between 161,000 and 322,000 adults • Giant cell arteritis: 228,000 adults Other forms of arthritis, including ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis, together affect between 600,000 and 2.4 million adults. And between 4 million and 10 million people have carpal tunnel syndrome, the report shows.”
Could Unsweetened Drinks Save You Some Pain?“In a study, the more of a common soft-drink sweetener called fructose that men consumed, the greater their chances of gout.”
ARTICLES:
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JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Bone density, structure, and strength in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Importance of disease severity and muscle deficits. (Arthritis Rheum. 2008)
Cancer risk in a cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in California. (Cancer Causes Control. 2008)
Fitness, fatigue, disease activity, and quality of life in pediatric lupus. (Arthritis Rheum. 2008)
Hypovitaminosis D among rheumatology outpatients in clinical practice. (Rheumatology (Oxford). 2008)
Incidence and Prevalence of Psoriatic Arthritis: A Systematic Review. (J Rheumatol. 2008)
Long-term Cardiovascular Mortality Among Middle-aged Men With Gout (Arch Intern Med. 2008) “Conclusion Among middle-aged men, a diagnosis of gout accompanied by an elevated uric acid level imparts significant independent CVD mortality risk. “
Prevalence and factors associated with metabolic syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. (J Clin Rheumatol. 2008)
Prevalence of malignancy in psoriatic arthritis. (Arthritis Rheum. 2007) “CONCLUSION: Overall, 10.2% of patients in the Toronto PsA cohort developed cancer. The most frequent cancers were breast, lung, and prostate cancer. The incidence of malignancy in the large PsA cohort did not differ from that in the general population.”
Self-reported sleep in systemic lupus erythematosus. (Clin Rheumatol. 2008) “The present results suggest that sleep disturbance is common in those with SLE and deserves more attention in a more representative sample.”
Vitamin D deficiency in systemic lupus erythematosus: prevalence, predictors and clinical consequences. (Rheumatology (Oxford). 2008) “Conclusions. Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are common in patients with SLE and are associated with sun avoidance. HCQ prevented vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency was related to a higher degree of fatigue. Vitamin D levels had no relation with SLE severity.”
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