You would have heard about many nutritional properties of the foods that we will talk about in this slideshow But the very ...

Background: Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) with a range of clinical manifestations ... blood lymphocyte subsets and CD4 + T cell subsets were examined using flow cytometry, and serum cytokine ...

To achieve this, we cover several key topics including normal exercise physiology; skeletal muscle dysfunction in PAH with a focus on vascular, morphological, and mitochondrial abnormalities; skeletal ...

Background: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) commonly coexists with connective tissue diseases ... were assessed using flow cytometry. Findings: Among the 976 RA patients, 414 (42.4%) ...

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a connective tissue disease that primarily affects spinal ... Table 1). Figure 1. Retrieval flow chart. A total of 47 studies examined 2,494 patients with AS ...

Twenty-six studies included a physical examination that also included blood testing (including serology), nailfold capillaroscopy and use of colour chart/photographs ... especially related to ...

23–26 We specifically excluded people with familial IBM and hereditary inclusion body myopathy, but we included people who had connective tissue and autoimmune diseases associated ... of the searches ...

THE relation between the thyroid gland and rheumatic disorders has long excited interest. 1–7 In particular, an association between some of the connective-tissue diseases and Hashimoto's ...

Connective tissue diseases are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders that affect any of the body's connective tissues. These disorders can be inherited or acquired, and can present with a ...

Using glucocorticoids, rituzimab, or certain immunosuppressants to treat connective tissue diseases is associated with greater risks for severe COVID-19-related outcomes.