Some Rarer Rheumatic Diseases

Fasting and rheumatic diseases

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

Rheumatic diseases in blacks, whites and Asians--some comments.

The aetiology of rheumatic diseases is unknown but in many of them it appears that there are one or more trigger factors which induce inflammatory rheumatic disease against the genetic background of the patient. Both trigger factors and genetic background may differ in different parts of the world. Ethnic differences can therefore modulate rheumatic diseases in many ways which will appear as di...

fasting and rheumatic diseases

fasting is one of the important religious practices of muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. the aim of this article is to revi...

The Rheumatic Diseases

Epigenetics in rheumatic diseases

With enormous speed novel data are emerging about regulating the expression of the genetically encoded information [1]. This highly complex regulatory network called epigenetics includes acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, sumoylation and non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), such as miRNA and lncRNAs. Our laboratory is addressing over the past decade inflammatory rheumatic diseases [2], like rheumat...