Patients from minority groups with SSc-ILD experience earlier disease onset and increased rates of emergency department visits.

The early introduction of etanercept was not superior to leflunomide for providing long-term disease control over 2 years among patients with difficult-to-treat RA.

Metformin use, compared with no use, was associated with a lower risk for uterine fibroids among women with diabetes.

Women with ADHD exhibited similar increases in basal activity and provoked activity levels as men with ADHD relative to patients without ADHD.

Women diagnosed with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) have an increased prevalence of severe autoimmune diseases.

When compared with other biologic therapies, patients with psoriasis receiving IL-23 inhibitors had a lower risk for inflammatory arthritis or psoriatic arthritis development.

HealthDay News — Upward trends in breast cancer incidence among women have continued, according to a study published online Oct. 1 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Targeted therapies for PsA are effective for reducing the use of symptomatic treatments, sick leave, and rates of hospitalization.

Positive topline results were announced from a phase 3 study of obinutuzumab in patients with lupus nephritis.

The prevalence of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures decreased over a 24-year period among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Stretching exercises may improve symptoms among patients with fibromyalgia, but the quality of evidence is limited, according to study results published in Clinical Rheumatology.

For plaque or guttate psoriasis, home-based narrowband ultraviolet B phototherapy is as effective as office-based phototherapy.