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Species | Bing LuSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Abdominal obesity and peripheral vascular disease in men and women: a comparison of waist-to-thigh ratio and waist circumference as measures of abdominal obesityBing Lu
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Atherosclerosis 208:253-7. 2010..This study is to evaluate the association of PVD with two measures of abdominal obesity, waist-to-thigh ratio (WTR) and waist circumference (WC)...
Alcohol consumption and markers of inflammation in women with preclinical rheumatoid arthritisBing Lu
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arthritis Rheum 62:3554-9. 2010..To examine the association between alcohol consumption and markers of inflammation in preclinical rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...
Variation in initial kidney replacement therapy for end-stage renal disease due to lupus nephritis in the United StatesAmy Devlin
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:1642-53. 2011..We aimed to identify sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with variation in initial kidney replacement therapies among LN ESRD patients...
Remission and radiographic outcome in rheumatoid arthritis: application of the 2011 ACR/EULAR remission criteria in an observational cohortSiri Lillegraven
Division of Rheumatology Section of Clinical Sciences, Alumnae Hall Room 305, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 71:681-6. 2012....
Pain persists in DAS28 rheumatoid arthritis remission but not in ACR/EULAR remission: a longitudinal observational studyYvonne C Lee
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PBB B3, Boston, MA, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 13:R83. 2011..We assessed the prevalence of pain in RA patients in remission according to the Disease Activity Score (DAS28-CRP4) and the American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism (ACR/EULAR) remission criteria...
End-stage renal disease due to lupus nephritis among children in the US, 1995-2006Linda T Hiraki
Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arthritis Rheum 63:1988-97. 2011..To identify predictors of wait-listing for kidney transplantation, kidney transplantation, and mortality among children with lupus nephritis-associated end-stage renal disease (ESRD)...
Sustained rheumatoid arthritis remission is uncommon in clinical practiceFemke H M Prince
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 14:R68. 2012..Remission is an important goal of therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but data on duration of remission are lacking. Our objective was to describe the duration of remission in RA, assessed by different criteria...
The role of sleep problems in central pain processing in rheumatoid arthritisYvonne C Lee
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Rheum 65:59-68. 2013..This study was undertaken to examine the level of CPM, pressure-pain threshold, and pressure-pain tolerance among RA patients compared to healthy controls...
Pain sensitivity and pain reactivity in osteoarthritisYvonne C Lee
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:320-7. 2011....
Trends in the incidence, demographics, and outcomes of end-stage renal disease due to lupus nephritis in the US from 1995 to 2006Karen H Costenbader
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Rheum 63:1681-8. 2011....
Evaluation of selected rheumatoid arthritis activity scores for office-based assessmentMary Beth Sullivan
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Rheumatol 37:2466-8. 2010..The goal of our study was to establish the validity of patient-reported indices compared to the C-reactive protein-based Disease Activity Score (DAS28-CRP4)...
PTPN22.6, a dominant negative isoform of PTPN22 and potential biomarker of rheumatoid arthritisHui Hsin Chang
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e33067. 2012..Our data depict a model that can reconcile the conflicting observations on the functional impact of the C1858T SNP and also suggest that PTPN22.6 is a novel biomarker of rheumatoid arthritis...
Changes in glycosylated hemoglobin after initiation of hydroxychloroquine or methotrexate treatment in diabetes patients with rheumatic diseasesLaura R Rekedal
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arthritis Rheum 62:3569-73. 2010..We examined medical records of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and concomitant rheumatic illness to measure changes in HbA(1c) after starting HCQ or methotrexate (MTX)...
Clinical predictors of erosion-free status in rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort studyKatherine P Liao
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Rheumatology (Oxford) 50:1473-9. 2011..Our objective was to characterize the group of RA patients without erosions and identify its clinical predictors...
Increasing pneumococcal vaccination for immunosuppressed patients: a cluster quality improvement trialSonali P Desai
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Rheum 65:39-47. 2013....
Hydroxychloroquine improves insulin sensitivity in obese non-diabetic individualsEmileigh Mercer
Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 14:R135. 2012..To investigate the mechanism of this effect, we examined the effect of HCQ on insulin resistance, insulin sensitivity, and pancreatic β-cell secretion of insulin in non-diabetic, obese subjects...
The relationship between disease activity, sleep, psychiatric distress and pain sensitivity in rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional studyYvonne C Lee
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PBB B3, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R160. 2009..The etiology of RA pain is likely multifactorial, including both inflammatory and non-inflammatory components. In this study, we examine the association between disease activity, sleep, psychiatric distress and pain sensitivity in RA...
Adipokine hormones and hand osteoarthritis: radiographic severity and painMei Massengale
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e47860. 2012..Obesity's association with hand osteoarthritis cannot be fully explained by mechanical loading. We examined the relationship between adipokines and radiographic hand osteoarthritis severity and pain...
