Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD)

is a leading rheumatology journal from BMJ and EULAR, publishing original research, reviews and recommendations

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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD) is an international peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of rheumatology, which includes the full spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions, arthritic disease, and connective tissue disorders. ARD publishes basic, clinical, and translational scientific research, including the most important recommendations for the management of various conditions.

ARD is an official journal of EULAR.

Free lay summaries are provided for selected research articles and all EULAR recommendations. You can keep up with the latest news via Twitter and Facebook.

Listen to the ARD podcast and subscribe in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Josef Smolen, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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ARD is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.

Current Issue

Key Articles from the last 75 years

Commentaries on key papers from 1947

Tore Kvien highlights the importance of 4 key papers published in the journal in 1947, the year that EULAR was founded.

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First European Congress of Rheumatology (1947)

A report from the First European Congress of Rheumatology which took place in Copenhagen in 1947.

1 January 1947

Celebrating 75 Years of EULAR

Highlights from EULAR to celebrate their 75th anniversary.

EULAR 2022 Congress Abstracts

Access the 2022 EULAR Congress abstracts for free online.

Authors

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases considers unsolicited submissions of a variety of article types, including original research articles (extended and concise reports), viewpoints, and letters to the Editor.

The Author Information section provides general guidelines and requirements for specific article types.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Pathological autoantibody internalisation in myositis

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Viewpoint:

Adjustment of p values for multiple hypotheses: why, when and how

8 May 2024

Sjögren’s syndrome:

Novel autoantibodies help diagnose anti-SSA antibody negative Sjögren disease and predict abnormal labial salivary gland pathology

3 May 2024

Systemic lupus erythematosus:

Risk of flare and damage accrual after tapering glucocorticoids in modified serologically active clinically quiescent patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a multinational observational cohort study

29 February 2024

Latest Articles

Inflammatory arthritis:

Uncovering specific genetic-respiratory disease endotypes for rheumatoid arthritis risk

1 November 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis:

ITGA5+ synovial fibroblasts orchestrate proinflammatory niche formation by remodelling the local immune microenvironment in rheumatoid arthritis

1 November 2024

Osteoarthritis:

Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial

30 October 2024

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Recommends

The EULAR Standing Committees regularly establish and publish recommendations for the treatment of various rheumatic disorders. Each of these recommendations is developed by a group of specialists in their field.

All EULAR recommendations are free to access.

Each recommendation also has an accompanying lay summary, which is also free to access.

Video

Concordance and discordance in SLE clinical trial outcome measures: analysis of three anifrolumab phase 2/3 trials

27 May 2022

Across trials, most patients had concordant BICLA/SRI(4) outcomes and dual BICLA/SRI(4) responses favoured anifrolumab. A BICLA non-responder/SRI(4) responder subgroup was identified where imbalances of key factors driving the BICLA/SRI(4) discordance (disease activity, glucocorticoid taper) disproportionately favoured the TULIP-1 placebo group. Careful attention to baseline disease activity and monitoring glucocorticoid taper variation will be essential in future SLE trials.

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