New findings reveal that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity significantly affects the severity of interstitial lung disease (ILD), both radiologically and physiologically, in patients with RA ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and RA-interstitial lung disease are at an increased risk of lung cancer, according to the results of a retrospective, matched cohort study. "Prior studies have ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) face increased risk for interstitial lung disease (ILD) and comorbidities appear to raise it further. This retrospective study sought to compare different ...

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors led to no significant difference in survival or respiratory-related hospitalizations compared with non-TNF inhibitors, in patients with rheumatoid ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a significantly increased risk for lung cancer, according to a study published online July 28 in Arthritis & Rheumatology. Rebecca T. Brooks, M.D., from ...

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) causes significant morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Patients at high risk of ILD should be screened using ...

CTD is a diverse group of disorders that includes systemic sclerosis (SSc), idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), Sjögren disease (SjD), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and mixed CTD (MCTD).

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In addition to all-cause mortality, hospitalization and mechanical ventilation risks were comparable between the ...

There are general risk factors for patients with rheumatic disease developing interstitial lung disease, but there are also disease-specific risk factors depending on which rheumatic disease they have ...

Interstitial Lung Disease: Types, Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis and Treatments: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) refers to a group of lung disorders that cause inflammation and ...

Analysis included 72,795 Veterans Health Administration patients with RA and 633,937 matched non-RA persons. HealthDay News — Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a significantly increased ...