Our results support the hypothesis that a low initial dose of prednisone is sufficient to control PMR in the majority of patients. They also suggest that 0.20 mg per kg weight could be the ...

High serum CXCL13 levels are predictive of treatment failure with first-line MTX among patients with early RA.

THE new adrenocortical steroid prednisone 1 was used in the treatment of 33 patients with rheumatoid arthritis ... and required larger and larger doses to obtain a lessened degree of relief.

[1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR-BHPR guidelines suggesting an initial prednisone ... dose was linked to treatment duration and cumulative dosage ...