PARA study Rotterdam: >10 years of research on RA and pregnancy

The annual 2-day conference of the Dutch Rheumatology Association (NVR) took place last week. One of the invited speakers was Dr RJEM Dolhain (photo) from Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Dr Dolhain provided the audience with a nice overview of what over a decade of research (in the so-called PARA study 2002-2015) in rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy has yielded so far. The Rotterdam PARA study can be considered as the world’s largest (and ongoing) study of pregnancy related topics in rheumatoid arthritis (follow-up of n=300 of which 250 women have become pregnant). The highlights (i.e. from my own notes during his excellent talk) are listed in this blogpost.