Associations of disease activity and treatments with mortality in men with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the VARA registry.

Objectives: To examine the all-cause mortality rate and factors associated with mortality in US veteran men with RA.

Methods: Men with RA were enrolled and followed until death or censoring. Vital status was ascertained through systematic record review and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated using US life tables for men.

Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation in rheumatoid arthritis.

Background: Minocycline is recognized as an effective, well-tolerated therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), although its use has been associated with the development of cutaneous hyperpigmentation.

Objectives: To assess the clinical determinants and frequency of minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation in patients with RA.

Methods: A retrospective medical record review of all patients with RA seen in 2 academic rheumatology practices was performed to identify subjects who had received at least 1 month of continuous minocycline therapy.

Shoulder kinematics and kinetics during two speeds of wheelchair propulsion.

The primary objective of this study was to examine the kinematics and kinetics of the shoulder during wheelchair propulsion at a slow and moderate speed. Twenty-seven individuals with paraplegia propelled their wheelchairs at speeds of 0.9 m/s and 1.

Manual wheelchair pushrim dynamics in people with multiple sclerosis.

Objectives: To define differences in pushrim dynamics during manual wheelchair propulsion by users with multiple sclerosis (MS) relative to 2 control groups of subjects with spinal cord injury (SCI) and no disability (ND) and to investigate changes in propulsion biomechanics at different speeds and with fatigue.

Design: Case-control.

Setting: Biomechanics laboratory.

Propulsion patterns and pushrim biomechanics in manual wheelchair propulsion.

Objectives: To classify stroke patterns of manual wheelchair users and to determine if different patterns of propulsion lead to different biomechanics.

Design: Case series.

Setting: Biomechanics laboratory.