Nasra K Al Adhoubi, Prabha Liyanage, Issa Al Salmi, Zainab Abdul Hameed, Safiya Al Abrawi, Talal Al Lawati, Amanda Almouslem, Aadil Al Ghafri, Ali Al Shamsi, Zakariya Alismaeili, Musallam Al Mashaani, Bsh Al Lawati, Hilal Al Kalbani, Juma Al Kaabi, Ala'a Amayri, Ahmed Al Sariri
OBJECTIVES: This research aims to investigate the prevalence, epidemiological characteristics, mortality rates, survival rates and the rate of malignancy in patients diagnosed with inflammatory myopathies (IIM) in Oman. METHODS: This is a longitudinal study, that covered a span of 16 years at eight rheumatology centres in Oman. The study included all adults and paediatric patients diagnosed with different types of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) and who fulfil either the Bohan classification criteria or the 2017 EULAR/ACR classification criteria...
June 3, 2024: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology