'I knew something was really wrong when doctors said Bebe was fine'
Mum Anne-Marie had to demand a print-out of the blood results, Google the results herself and pay for a private appointment ...
lupus.bmj9d
Unravelling the TCRβ repertoire: a key to unlocking the immunopathogenesis and precision medicine in SLE
Objectives SLE is a multifaceted autoimmune disorder with a complex pathogenesis involving genetic, environmental and ...
BMJ4d
Anti-CCP antibody test predicts the disease course during 3 years in early rheumatoid arthritis (the Swedish TIRA project)
Methods: 242 patients with recent onset (⩽1 year) RA were followed ... Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine statistical differences between anti-CCP positive and anti-CCP negative patients in ESR ...
BMJ24d
Low back pain investigations and prognosis: a review
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common symptoms in the developed world, 1 yet it is one of the most elusive ... the most appropriate diagnostic work up is to order erythrocyte sedimentation ...
The New England Journal of Medicine28d
When Blurry Vision Clouds the Bigger Picture
The creatinine level was 1.03 mg ... a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Blood cultures, polymerase-chain-reaction testing for common respiratory viruses, and serologic tests for ehrlichia ...
Health on MSN15d
What To Know About Sugar Intake and Inflammation
Medically reviewed by Simone Harounian, MS Added sugars are found in processed and sugar-sweetened foods and beverages. The average daily sugar consumption in the United States is 19 teaspoons (76 ...
BMJ6d
Multicentre, multitime, multidimension, prospective follow-up cohort study on patients during the first wave of COVID-19 in China: a study protocol
Introduction During the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, the surge of COVID-19 cases was rapid and drastic. Emerging evidence suggests that beyond the acute phase, patients with COVID-19 ...
BMJ24d
Clinical investigation of athletes with persistent fatigue and/or recurrent infections
1 Elite athletes with recurrent infections ... for elite athletes were used to assess pathology test results. 11 Pathology investigations included a full blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, ...
BMJ20d
Efficacy of prednisone 1–4 mg/day in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled withdrawal clinical trial
Patients were taking stable doses of 1–4 mg prednisone with stable clinical status ... Weight, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and laboratory tests of ESR, CRP, haematology and liver profiles ...
Frontiers23d
Association between red blood cell distribution width-to-albumin ratio and prognosis in post-cardiac arrest patients: data from the MIMIC-IV database
The red blood cell distribution width (RDW)-to-albumin ratio ... hypersensitive C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and ferritin] on the association between the RAR level and the ...
verywellhealth10d
An Overview of Sacroiliitis
These might include: Tests for infection The genetic test for HLA-B27 (which might indicate a form of spondyloarthritis) C-reactive protein (CRP) blood test or erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR ...