Active clinical trials for "Arthritis"

Ancillary study to the Etanercept protocol 20060104. Subjects have been asked to provide additional blood samples for further assessment.

The purpose of this study is to better understand the causes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particularly in African Americans.

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a condition in which the lungs of a patient become scarred and fibrous. It has been known to occur in as many as 40% of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The cause of the pulmonary fibrosis in patients with RA is unknown. Researchers hope to improve their understanding of the disease process involved in PF and RA by analyzing specimens collected by bronchoscopy, lung biopsy, lung transplantation, or autopsy from patients with these conditions. The purpose of this study is to collect specimens from rheumatoid arthritis patients with and without pulmonary fibrosis as well as patients with pulmonary fibrosis without associated diseases or cause (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis).

The aims of this study is to primarily investigate fatigue and sleep and to secondarily examine possible relationships between disease activity, pain and functional ability in Turkish children and adolescents with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).

An observational study assessing the impact of anti-citrullinated antibody (ACPA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) participants who have received abatacept or tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) from the Optimising Patient outcome in Australian rheumatoLogy (OPAL) registry

The correlation of circulating serum miR-125ba and miR-146a expression and clinical response to green tea therapy were analysed in RA patients.Clinical response to green tea therapy for 24 weeks was calculated from DAS28 scores. Whereas , a decrease of 1.2 points or above in DAS28 scores at 24 weeks of treatment compared with baseline was defined as clinical response according to the EULAR response criteria.A ready-made solutions containing the primers and probes for human miR-146a and miR-125ba (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) and real-time RT-PCR was estimated using an ABI 7300 system (Applied Bio systems).

The purpose of this study is a long-term, observational study of Abatacept in patients with Psoriatic Arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disorder.

It is hypothesized that one or several of these 6 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs2246704, rs2853884, rs3747158, rs4820059, rs7291050, and rs933226) in the YWHAH gene could be related to RA disease severity.

Our aim in this study is to translate the Inflammatory Arthritis Facilitators and Barriers to Physical Activity (IFAB) Questionnaire which was developed to determine the factors that facilitate and prevent individuals for physical activity for patients with inflammatory arthritis into Turkish language. Also, our aim is to evaluate the validity and reliability of the IFAB Questionnaire in the Turkish population, and to perform a cultural adaptation if necessary at the same time. Determining the factors that facilitate and prevent individuals for physical activity interventions with rheumatic diseases and then designing physical activity programs considering these factors may play an important role in reducing the symptoms caused by the disease and increasing their quality of life.

The study is a Worldwide Survey on the Understanding of Psoriatic Disease among Patients with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis.