Rheumatic diseases as a correlation subject

Fasting and rheumatic diseases

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

Malignancy as a comorbidity in rheumatic diseases.

Patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, particularly RA, SLE, SS and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, are at increased risk of developing malignancies. Cancer occurrence adds to the disease burden in these patients, adversely affecting quality of life and life expectancy. This risk is related to the pathobiology of the underlying rheumatic disease including the inflammatory bur...

fasting and rheumatic diseases

fasting is one of the important religious practices of muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. the aim of this article is to revi...

The Rheumatic Diseases

Epigenetics in rheumatic diseases

With enormous speed novel data are emerging about regulating the expression of the genetically encoded information [1]. This highly complex regulatory network called epigenetics includes acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, sumoylation and non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), such as miRNA and lncRNAs. Our laboratory is addressing over the past decade inflammatory rheumatic diseases [2], like rheumat...