Editor’s note: What research on psoriatic arthritis (PsA) presented at ACR Convergence 2024 has the greatest potential for a positive impact on clinical care, treatment options or serve as the basis for future research? That’s the question The Rheumatologist asked David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD—our founding editor—to consider. With thousands of research abstracts presented at the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Various image analysis techniques show sex-specific patterns of bone deterioration at the hip, suggesting that men and women should be assessed differently for hip fracture risk, researchers say. “One major contribution of this work is the integration of data-driven computational anatomy approaches, which showed that proximal femur fragility linked to fracture seems…
Women with gout are more likely to have contraindications to nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and are less likely to receive urate-lowering drugs than men with the disease. (posted Feb. 5)