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  1. 20-04-2022 | Osteoarthritis | News | Article

    Bariatric surgery may reduce need for TKA in people with obesity, knee osteoarthritis

    Findings from a randomized controlled trial suggest that weight-loss surgery may negate the need for total knee arthroplasty for some people with severe obesity and knee osteoarthritis.

  2. 09-12-2021 | Rheumatoid arthritis | News | Article

    Considering baseline obesity could improve chances of treat-to-target success in RA

    Obesity is associated with a reduced likelihood of achieving remission among patients with moderately active rheumatoid arthritis treated with an intensive strategy, suggests an analysis of data from the TITRATE trial.

  3. 11-12-2020 | Gout | News | Article

    Modifying obesity key to gout prevention

    But, in obese men, modifying these factors would only be expected to avoid a nonsignificant 5% of incident gout cases, “suggesting that for the risk of gout, men with obesity may not benefit from the other modifications unless weight is also addressed,” Choi and co-authors say.

  4. 24-01-2020 | Rheumatoid arthritis | News | Article
    News in brief

    Obesity, comorbidities do not compromise tocilizumab effectiveness

    Real-world study results suggest that tocilizumab has consistent effectiveness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis regardless of obesity or the presence of comorbidities.

  5. 20-12-2019 | Psoriatic arthritis | News | Article

    Obesity may be a modifiable risk factor for PsA

    “[O]ur study adds to the growing evidence that the risk of PsA is modifiable and highlights the importance of preventive work against obesity as well as encouraging physical activity in order to reduce the incidence of PsA,” they write in Arthritis Care & Research .

  6. 26-11-2019 | Osteoarthritis | News | Article

    Meta-analysis confirms link between obesity and hip replacement complications

    Obese people have a significantly higher risk for complications, particularly infection, following total hip arthroplasty than non-obese people, results of a meta-analysis involving more than 2 million patients show.

  7. 31-05-2019 | Osteoarthritis | News | Article

    Metformin may slow knee OA progression in people with obesity

    “Data from our study, together with data from previous human and animal studies, provide proof of concept that targeting obesity and obesity-related inflammatory, and metabolic pathways may have a disease-modifying effect in knee OA and that metformin might be a potential disease-modifying OA drug by affecting multiple pathological pathways in people with knee OA who are obese,” Wang and co-authors conclude in Arthritis Research & Therapy .

  8. 11-06-2018 | Rheumatoid arthritis | Article

    Leptin as an obesity marker in rheumatoid arthritis

    The determination of excess of body fat mass provides a more suitable determinant of obesity in rheumatoid arthritis patients; however, body mass

  9. 08-05-2018 | Rheumatoid arthritis | News | Article
    News in brief

    Severe obesity may accelerate disability progression in patients with RA

    Severe obesity is associated with an increased risk for progression of disability among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, researchers report.

  10. 28-07-2018 | Osteoarthritis | Review | Article

    The impact of sarcopenic obesity on knee and hip osteoarthritis: A scoping review

    This scoping review examines the extent of evidence of sarcopenic obesity in adults with hip or knee osteoarthritis.

  11. 11-04-2018 | Rheumatoid arthritis | News | Article

    Obesity associated with worse short-term disease activity in early RA

    The prevalence of obesity continued to rise over the study period, with 5-year prevalence rates of 22.5% in ERAS and 37.2% in ERAN.

  12. 06-12-2017 | Obesity | Conference report | Article

    Obesity in rheumatic diseases: A modifiable target for improving outcomes?

    Research presented at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, USA, highlighted the adverse effects of obesity on clinical and patient-reported outcomes in various rheumatic disorders, including axial spondyloarthropathy, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis. In this report, we outline the main findings of four studies addressing this issue.

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    07-11-2017 | ACR/ARHP 2017 | Video

    The effects of obesity on the outcomes of rheumatic disorders

    Margaret Tsai provides independent comment on three studies exploring the effects of obesity in patients with rheumatic diseases.

  14. 21-06-2017 | Gout | Conference report | Article
    EULAR 2017

    Exploring the links between obesity and musculoskeletal disorders

    Presentations on the final day of EULAR 2017 examined the relationship between diet, obesity, and rheumatologic diseases.

  15. 17-10-2017 | Osteoarthritis | News | Article

    Obesity associated with mobility loss in later life after surgery for OA

    Women with class II obesity also had a significantly increased risk for death before the age of 85 years than normal-weight participants (adjusted OR=6.08), but mortality risk was not significantly higher among those who were overweight or had class I obesity.

  16. 05-07-2018 | Gout | Highlight | Teaser
    Journal article

    Obesity, hypertension and diuretic use as risk factors for incident gout: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

    The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the risk of incident gout associated with obesity, hypertension and diuretic use [ read more ]. Evans PL et al. Arthritis Res Ther 2018; 20: 136. doi: 10.1186/s13075-018-1612-1

  17. 29-11-2016 | Rheumatoid arthritis | Article

    Abdominal obesity, gender and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis – a nested case–control study

    This research evaluated the association between obesity in general and abdominal obesity, and found both to be independently associated with a modest increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Ljung L & Rantapää-Dahlqvist S. Arthritis Res Ther 2016;18:277. doi:10.1186/s13075-016-1171-2

  18. 15-11-2022 | ACR 2022 | Conference coverage | Article

    Community-based diet, exercise program could benefit people with knee osteoarthritis

    A diet and exercise program delivered in community settings may improve some clinical outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, suggest findings from the WE-CAN pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

  19. 18-07-2018 | Rheumatoid arthritis | News | Article
    News in brief

    Obesity, body fat percentage linked to RA risk in women

    These findings suggest that “excess total body fat volume per se rather than abdominal obesity is associated with RA risk” among women, write Linauskas and colleagues in Arthritis Care & Research .

  20. 26-03-2018 | Rheumatoid arthritis | Article

    The association of obesity with disease activity, functional ability and quality of life in early rheumatoid arthritis: Data from the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study/Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network UK prospective cohorts

    Nikiphorou E et al. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2018; Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/key066

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