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In this episode, Dr Jack Cush reviews the news, journal articles and FDA warnings from the past week on RheumNow.com

A population based Swedish study of birth records shows that antibiotic exposure in first three years of life to be associated with a future risk of JIA, although infections during fetal life or childhood did not increase risk of JIA. #RheumNow https://t.co/Md0zBm5Txl

Alendronate may protect against type 2 Diabetes. Data from National Danish Patient Registry, presented at the EASD meeting compared 160k T2DM & 500k controls, T2DM following alendronate adjusted OR=0.64; 0.62-0.66; ⋗8yrs OR=0.47 https://t.co/RYEZodUZtv

Analysis of 508 #RA pts (over 10 yrs) in the BeST study shows joint swelling at baseline resulted in half w/ re-swelling later and significantly increased risk of same joint swelling during follow-up (OR 2.37, 95% CI 2.30 to 2.43, p⋖0.001) https://t.co/a7zH4YRAkq

Finnish Pop study 939 #RA pts shows highest healthcare costs linked to high Dz activity & comorbidity. Clusters: C1) young w/ low costs & activity, C2) chronic pain, disability, fatigue, C3) high cost/dz activity, less pain, C4)comorbidities w/ $$$ https://t.co/Azc35zyA9J

A longitudinal study from Iceland shows an increasing number of native joint infections (NJI), with iatrogenic, postarthroscopic infections being of particular concern. Read more… https://t.co/j3gzZ9g0QV

Case controlled study suggests that intraarticular steroid injections is associated with increased (HR 8.56; 3.29-22.3) risk of rapidly destructive hip disease (RDHD); at a rate of 5.4% (5.1 mos post injx) w/ JSN, osteolysis, fem head collapse https://t.co/grX5bO4495<