Xuchen Ren

Transcending aging: disease specificity, assessment challenges, and management strategies for rheumatoid arthritis-related sarcopenia

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disorder marked by chronic synovitis, with pathological damages extending beyond joint destruction to skeletal muscle, bone and metabolic homeostasis. Sarcopenia is conventionally regarded as age-driven degeneration, yet its high prevalence in young RA patients indicat...