Dr Karin Lodin from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden has recently been published in ‘Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism’. The article was entitled ‘Patient global assessment and inflammatory markers in patients with Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies - A longitudinal study’ and was based on data from the MYONET registry. For further information please see the publication details and click on the link below.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049017224000209

Lodin K, Espinosa-Ortega F, Dastmalchi M, Vencovsky J, Andersson H, Chinoy H, Lilleker JB, Shinjo SK, Maurer B, Griger Z, Ceribelli A, Torres-Ruiz J, Vasquez-Del Mercado M, Leonard D, Alexanderson H, Lundberg IE; MyoNet Registry Study Group. Patient global assessment and inflammatory markers in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies - A longitudinal study. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2024 Jan 14;65:152379. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152379. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38241913.

Please see the paper published by Boel De Paepe entitled ‘Incorporating circulating cytokines into the idiopathic Inflammatory myopathy subclassification toolkit’

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1130614/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journ

‘You may also find the following series of articles published by frontiers in medicine of interest’

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/45399/systemic-involvement-in-idiopathic-inflammatory-myopathies-focusing-beyond-the-muscles#articles

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