Paraskevi V. Voulgari

TL;DR: A systematic review of incidence and prevalence studies of rheumatoid arthritis, based on the 1987 revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria, to compare their methodologies and summarize their results, and to investigate the possible geographic variations and changes over time in the frequency of the disease.

TL;DR: The estimated incidence and prevalence of pSS in this study were slightly higher in comparison with data from other studies based on physician-diagnosed cases and the prevalence was significantly lower when compared with the findings of studiesbased on the examination of a sample of the general population.

TL;DR: A systematic review of incidence and prevalence studies of psoriatic arthritis published after 1987 until December 2006, in order to evaluate and compare their methodology and to summarize their results, to investigate the possible geographic variations of occurrence of PsA.

TL;DR: The implication of TNFα in multiple sclerosis is dealt with and the possible relationship of T NFα antagonist and demyelinating diseases is discussed.

TL;DR: In early RA patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, cigarette smoking was associated with increased disease activity, and severity, independently of several other possible confounders and despite the early disease treatment.