🔥The New ACR-EULAR criteria for ANCA Vasculitis and how they compare from the 1990 criteria nature.com/articles/s4158…

1/6 NAFLD is underdiagnosed and is an underrecognized risk factor for CVD ❤️‍🩹 Patients with NAFLD are... 👉at higher risk of poor outcomes from PCI/CABG 👉at 4-6x greater risk of cardiac-related mortality …so let’s learn about NAFLD! Source for thread: Duell et al. 2022.

I'm really pleased to share a tool I developed with colleagues at Edinburgh University - designed to support academics in managing their research careers. 1/11

Cochrane review of Stem cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis (3RCTs w/ 125 pts). Non‐myeloablative & myeloablative selective HSCT had moderate evidence for improved survival, skin thickness & function. But these had high Serious AE rates. bit.ly/3JU3Wht

Really exited to share our latest paper - out today in The Lancet with simultaneous #ESCCongress presentation: thelancet.com/journals/lance… We wanted to know whether patients with autoimmune disease had a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. A short 🧵

Statins and muscle symptoms - metanalysis presented by Colin Baigent at #ESCCongress showed that muscle symptoms are common, but 93% are NOT attributable to statins Full paper (open access) : thelancet.com/journals/lance…

1/ Having been promised an energy price freeze, millions will be shocked when hit with a 25% rise in fuel bills in October. 5 million kids risk being pushed into poverty, with charities having to stop feeding the hungry so they can help the starving. We have to act. [THREAD]

1. How to write your First Research Article & get it published (Everything you need to know) 🧾🖋 📖 A 14 points detailed thread for Beginner Researchers PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD_Genie #phdchat Happy Researchers @careerconversa1 The PhD Place Parliamentary Research Group #phdchatter #research

New GCA classification criteria finally published! 🤗🤗🤗 Congrats Peter Grayson 2022 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR Classification Criteria for Giant Cell Arteritis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Exciting time to be doing research in GCA! Over half a dozen ongoing RCTs Challenging to recruit enough patients given (1) competing trials (2) reticence to join a trial when tocilizumab (standard of care) is available #ACR22 #Vasculitis22 Dr. John Cush

ASAS-EULAR Rec for AxSpA 2022 ◦ NSAIDs are first line ◦ b/tsDMARDs when ASDAS >2.1 ◦ Uveitis/IBD ➤TNFi ◦ Psoriasis ➤IL-17i ◦ Review Dx if Rx failure ◦ Switch if active disease confirmed ◦ Taper bDMARDs if sustained remission Jose Scher #ReviewCourse Dr. John Cush #ACR22

New subarachnoid haemorrhage NICE Guidance out. 3 key points. nice.org.uk/guidance/ng228… Royal College of Emergency Medicine Dan Horner @EddCarlton Matt Reed 1) If you aren't already, stop doing LPs if CT brain done within 6 hours of headache onset.

Happy to share this beautiful review led by Vincent Di Martino "Busting the myth of methotrexate chronic hepatotoxicity" published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology lnkd.in/eTut6RuF

Brilliant/provocative review proposing unifying view of medically unexplained illness w implications 4 #LongCovid #MECFS and beyond-why this syndrome is NOT MIND OR BODY Prof. Akiko Iwasaki AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD Eric Topol Michael Peluso, MD Cassandra Calabrese nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great review article in NEJM on #rheumatoid arthritis. Our understanding of the disease and options for management have come such a long way!

I’m excited to share this summary of unmet needs in rheumatology from the Advances in Targeted Therapies meeting. Of course there are others….what would would you add? ard.bmj.com/content/early/…

Nociplastic Pain Definition, Mechanisms & Clinical Presentations 🧵

PhD studentships funded by Cancer Research UK in Scotland working on long-term care for people living with cancer supervised by Elizabeth Lemmon Prof Peter Hall and me. Find out more at: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… #careaboutcare