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Men with psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondylarthritis have more children and at an earlier age than matched controls: results from a nationwide cohort
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Health-related Quality of Life in DMARD-treated adults with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Compared to Rheumatoid Arthritis and the General Population
Journal of Rheumatology 01. September 2025
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Remote monitoring or patient-initiated care in axial spondyloarthritis: a 3-armed randomised controlled noninferiority trial
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2025
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Arthritis & Rheumatology 2025
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Three-Year Results of Tapering Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor to Withdrawal Compared to Stable Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Among Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis in Sustained Remission: A Multicenter Randomized Trial
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The Lancet Rheumatology 2025
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Arthritis care & research 2024
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pål Nicolay Rydning,
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Rheumatology International 2024
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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2024
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BMC Health Services Research 2023
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Norwegian society of rheumatology recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of patients with giant cell arteritis
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Certolizumab pegol, abatacept, tocilizumab or active conventional treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis: 48-week clinical and radiographic results of the investigator-initiated randomised controlled NORD-STAR trial
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JMIR Research Protocols 2023
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Arthritis care & research 2023
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Jens Vikse,
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Differential sensitivity of the 2020 revised comprehensive diagnostic criteria and the 2019 ACR/EULAR classification criteria across IgG4-related disease phenotypes: results from a Norwegian cohort
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2023
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Siri Lillegraven,
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Effect of tapered versus stable treatment with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors on disease flares in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in remission: a randomised, open label, non-inferiority trial
Mielnik Pawel,
Joseph Sexton,
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Lene Kristin Brekke,
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Exploring drug cost and disease outcome in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs in Norway in 2010–2019 – a country with a national tender system for prescription of costly drugs
BMC Health Services Research 2022
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Imane Bardan,
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Treatment Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors and Methotrexate Monotherapy in Adults With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Data From NOR-DMARD
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Siri Lillegraven,
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Effect of Half-Dose vs Stable-Dose Conventional Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs on Disease Flares in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Remission: The ARCTIC REWIND Randomized Clinical Trial
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Ingrid Egeland Christensen,
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Serious infections in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis treated with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: data from register linkage of the NOR-DMARD study
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 08. October 2021
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Obesity Increases Disease Activity of Norwegian Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: Results from the European Map of Axial Spondyloarthritis Survey
Current Rheumatology Reports 2020
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Aksel Thuv Nilsen,
Christine Karlsen,
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Increasing incidence and prevalence of ANCA-associated vasculitis in Northern Norway
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Lars Christian Haugli Bråten,
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The effect of infliximab in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes (the BackToBasic study): study protocol of a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial
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Mielnik Pawel,
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Does Older Age have an Impact on Rituximab Efficacy and Safety? Results from the NOR-DMARD Register
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Active conventional treatment and three different biological treatments in early rheumatoid arthritis: Phase IV investigator initiated, randomised, observer blinded clinical trial
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Four-year follow-up of inflammatory arthropathy patients treated with golimumab: Data from the observational multicentre NOR-DMARD study
Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism 2019
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Gunnstein Bakland
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Rheumatology and therapy 2019
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Johannes C. Nossent,
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Rheumatology - Advances in Practice (Rheumap) 2018
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Discrepancies in risk age and relative risk estimations of cardiovascular disease in patients with inflammatory joint diseases
International Journal of Cardiology 2018
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Gunnstein Bakland,
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Mesenchymal stem cells and T cells in the formation of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Lupus Nephritis
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Feasibility of cardiovascular disease risk assessments in rheumatology outpatient clinics: Experiences from the nationwide NOCAR project
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Structured patient involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis research: Identification and prioritization of key research questions using the James Lind Alliance method
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Jens Vikse,
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2024
Jens Vikse,
Gunnstein Bakland,
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2024
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OP0021 3-YEAR RESULTS OF TAPERING TNFi TO WITHDRAWAL COMPARED TO STABLE TNFi AMONG RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS IN SUSTAINED REMISSION: A MULTICENTER RANDOMIZED TRIAL
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Ronald van Vollenhoven,
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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 23. May 2022
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Siri Lillegraven,
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Arthritis & Rheumatology 2022
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Gunnstein Bakland
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Patients fulfilling European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group (ESSG) criteria but not Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) criteria for spondylarthritis
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