Background For rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the HLA-DRB1 ‘shared epitope’ (SE) allele has been proposed as a predictive biomarker for the effectiveness of mainly abatacept and other biologic ...
Background Salivary gland dysfunction in Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is clinically heterogeneous. Unstimulated whole salivary flow (UWSF) reflects basal secretion, while stimulated tests such as the Saxon ...