Going back to a story we ran in 2005 entitled, "Body Weight and Composition Changes During TNF Therapy for Spondylitis", Reuters reports that a new article in The Journal of Rheumatology has also linked treatment of the TNF-a inhibitors to changes of body composition.

The story reports that, "Patients experienced significant increases in body weight, fat mass, and lean mass after 1 year and 2 years of anti-TNF treatment, the authors report. Results were similar for men and women."

You can read the full story by clicking here.

Rheumatology News has two more stories regarding AS. The first is "Imaging and HLA-B27 Status Predict AS", which reports "Patients with back pain who are HLA-B27 positive with severe sacroiliitis on MRI are at high risk of progression to ankylosing spondylitis."

Delays in diagnosis have been a long established problem in spondylitis.

The next story, "Real-World Anti-TNF Therapy Benefits Seen in AS", discusses the continued evidence of people with AS improving with TNF-a therapy. This story can be read by clicking here.

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