Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Predicting Incident Clinically Apparent Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Jeffrey A SparksXintong HeJie HuangElaine A FletcherAlessandra ZaccardelliH Maura FriedlanderRitu R GillHiroto HatabuMizuki NishinoDavid J MurphyChristine K IannacconeTaysir G MahmoudMichelle L FritsBing LuIvan O RosasPaul F DellaripaMichael E WeinblattElizabeth W KarlsonNancy A ShadickTracy J DoylePublished in: Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) (2019)
Active articular RA was associated with an increased risk of developing RA-ILD. These results suggest that decreasing systemic inflammation may alter the natural history of RA-ILD development.