background: recently, osteoporosis is an increasingly important public health problem in men. the aim of this study was to investigate relationship between life style and bone mineral density in men. methods: among the 20-76 year-old men of tehran, 325 persons were selected randomly from 50 clusters. the persons suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid diseases, fractures or other condition...

The ICF is not only a comprehensive and adequate framework for assessing the impact of arthritis on individual patients but also its impact on populations. The ICF framework and applications such as the ICF Core Sets for rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and low back pain are therefore likely to be used extensively not only in clinical practice but also in outcomes and rehabil...

conclusions based on the findings of this study, s. aureus enterotoxin c (sec) has been detected in synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis by pcr and elisa methods. these valuable findings may describe the exact etiology of the ra and as well as change the methods of its diagnosis and treatment. this is the first research, which has shown the staphylococcal entc gene in synovial f...

Denosumab has been approved for the prevention of skeletal-related events of bone metastases (120 mg at every 4 weeks) and for the treatment of osteoporosis (60 mg at every 6 months). Post-denosumab hypocalcemia occurred in 5.2% of the cancer patients (1), but such an event was rarely reported in osteoporosis patients (2). Recently, severe hypocalcemia because of a lower dose of denosumab for o...

The bone and immune cells all share the same microenvironment, interact with each other, common signaling pathways, collaborate, performing functions of an “osteoimmune system”. cytokines may have different often opposite effects depending on specific environment in which they function, maturation stage target and/or influence other cytokines. Through osteoimmunology, intimate mechanisms pathog...

The current modern treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis is the genetically engineered biological drug rituximab. This helps to low active rheumatoid arthritis. aim of study find and evaluate clinical efficacy rituximab . We present our own observation use in RA a female patient. made assessment patient's condition with clinical, laboratory instrumental methods. diagnostics ACR/EULAR (American Col...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease with different extra-articular manifestations. Among those extra-articular manifestations, there are significant cutaneous manifestations which may result in first admission to a dermatologist. In this article some specific and non-specific skin lesions of RA such as rheumatoid nodules, exacerbated nodules, rheumatoid vascu...