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In search of the elusive biomarker(s): a proteomics analysis in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease
  1. Scott M Matson1,
  2. Joyce S Lee2
  1. 1 Medicine: Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
  2. 2 Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Joyce S Lee, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO 80045, USA; JOYCE.LEE{at}CUANSCHUTZ.EDU

https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2022-219354

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    The development of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) leads to significant morbidity and mortality.1 ILD impacts approximately 10% of patients with RA and even higher percentages have subclinical ILD.2 3 Despite the clinical impact of ILD in a patient with RA, this comorbidity is poorly understood.

    Recently, we and others have leveraged our understanding of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to better understand RA-ILD given similarities in demographics, radiology, pathology, natural history and more recently genetics.4 Looking to large, unbiased ’omic-based analyses, including proteomics, to further our understanding of RA-ILD is a logical next step. These approaches could identify novel and shared biomarkers …

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    • Contributors SM and JSL contributed equally to this editorial.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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