| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Exercise as an anti-inflammatory therapy for rheumatic diseases—myokine regulation | Nature Reviews Rheumatology | 2015 | 352 |
| 2 | Glucocorticoid-induced myopathy | Joint Bone Spine | 2011 | 216 |
| 3 | Immunogenicity and safety of the CoronaVac inactivated vaccine in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a phase 4 trial | Nature Medicine | 2021 | 148 |
| 4 | Placebo in sports nutrition: a proof‐of‐principle study involving caffeine supplementation | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports | 2017 | 137 |
| 5 | MicroRNAs as Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Ischemic Stroke—A Comprehensive Review and Bioinformatic Analysis | Cells | 2018 | 131 |
| 6 | Dispelling the myth that habitual caffeine consumption influences the performance response to acute caffeine supplementation | Journal of Applied Physiology | 2017 | 128 |
| 7 | Gastroesophageal Reflux Incites Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: Clinical, Radiologic, Histopathologic, and Treatment Evidence | Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism | 2010 | 124 |
| 8 | Combating physical inactivity during the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature Reviews Rheumatology | 2020 | 116 |
| 9 | Significance of circulating microRNAs in diabetes mellitus type 2 and platelet reactivity: bioinformatic analysis and review | Cardiovascular Diabetology | 2019 | 111 |
| 10 | Musculoskeletal findings in obese children | Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health | 2006 | 106 |
| 11 | Hydroxychloroquine reduces low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in systemic lupus erythematosus: a longitudinal evaluation of the lipid-lowering effect | Lupus | 2012 | 106 |
| 12 | Risk of Increased Physical Inactivity During COVID‐19 Outbreak in Older People: A Call for Actions | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2020 | 106 |
| 13 | Osteoarthritis: can anti-cytokine therapy play a role in treatment? | Clinical Rheumatology | 2010 | 98 |
| 14 | Longterm beneficial effect of chloroquine diphosphate on lipoprotein profile in lupus patients with and without steroid therapy | Journal of Rheumatology | 2001 | 97 |
| 15 | First Latin American clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: Latin American Group for the Study of Lupus (GLADEL, Grupo Latino Americano de Estudio del Lupus)–Pan-American League of Associations of Rheumatology (PANLAR) | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2018 | 96 |
| 16 | Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) in Autoimmune Diseases | Journal of Clinical Immunology | 2007 | 95 |
| 17 | Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome during pregnancy and puerperium: maternal and fetal characteristics of 15 cases | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2007 | 89 |
| 18 | Effects of Yoga and the Addition ofTui Nain Patients with Fibromyalgia | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine | 2007 | 87 |
| 19 | Immunological Implications of Physical Inactivity among Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Gerontology | 2020 | 87 |
| 20 | Safety and efficacy of hepatitis B vaccine in systemic lupus erythematosus | Lupus | 2007 | 86 |
| 21 | Exercise as a therapeutic tool to counteract inflammation and clinical symptoms in autoimmune rheumatic diseases | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2012 | 85 |
| 22 | Early proteinuria response: a valid real-life situation predictor of long-term lupus renal outcome in an ethnically diverse group with severe biopsy-proven nephritis? | Lupus Science and Medicine | 2017 | 82 |
| 23 | Menstrual disturbances in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus without alkylating therapy: clinical, hormonal and therapeutic associations | Lupus | 2002 | 75 |
| 24 | Positive effects of football on fitness, lipid profile, and insulin resistance in Brazilian patients with type 2 diabetes | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports | 2014 | 72 |
| 25 | Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcome of Herpes Zoster in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Journal of Clinical Rheumatology | 2010 | 67 |
| 26 | Physical inactivity and sedentary behavior: Overlooked risk factors in autoimmune rheumatic diseases? | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2017 | 64 |
| 27 | Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis in rheumatic diseases | Clinics | 2010 | 61 |
| 28 | Clinical safety of blood flow-restricted training? A comprehensive review of altered muscle metaboreflex in cardiovascular disease during ischemic exercise | American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 2020 | 59 |
| 29 | Time to Optimize Supplementation: Modifying Factors Influencing the Individual Responses to Extracellular Buffering Agents | Frontiers in Nutrition | 2018 | 57 |
| 30 | Muscle strength and muscle mass as predictors of hospital length of stay in patients with moderate to severe COVID‐19: a prospective observational study | Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle | 2021 | 55 |
| 31 | The Bone Metabolic Response to Exercise and Nutrition | Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews | 2020 | 54 |
| 32 | Factors predictive of serious infections over time in systemic lupus erythematosus patients: data from a multi-ethnic, multi-national, Latin American lupus cohort | Lupus | 2019 | 51 |
| 33 | Exercise Mitigates Bone Loss in Women With Severe Obesity After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A Randomized Controlled Trial | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2019 | 51 |
| 34 | High-Protein Plant-Based Diet Versus a Protein-Matched Omnivorous Diet to Support Resistance Training Adaptations: A Comparison Between Habitual Vegans and Omnivores | Sports Medicine | 2021 | 51 |
| 35 | An Update on the Management of Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Paediatric Drugs | 2021 | 49 |
| 36 | The possible role of physical exercise on the treatment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2009 | 48 |
| 37 | Prevalence of sarcopenia and associated risk factors by two diagnostic criteria in community-dwelling older men: the São Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH) | Osteoporosis International | 2014 | 47 |
| 38 | Anti-corpus luteum antibody: a novel serological marker for ovarian dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematosus? | Journal of Rheumatology | 1999 | 46 |
| 39 | Methotrexate as a preferential cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitor in whole blood of patients with rheumatoid arthritis | Rheumatology | 2000 | 45 |
| 40 | Chloroquine gestational use in systemic lupus erythematosus: assessing the risk of child ototoxicity by pure tone audiometry | Lupus | 2004 | 45 |
| 41 | Articular inflammatory manifestations in patients with different forms of leprosy | Journal of Rheumatology | 1998 | 45 |
| 42 | Exercise training can attenuate the inflammatory milieu in women with systemic lupus erythematosus | Journal of Applied Physiology | 2014 | 44 |
| 43 | Endometriosis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Comparative Evaluation of Clinical Manifestations and Serological Autoimmune Phenomena | American Journal of Reproductive Immunology | 2005 | 43 |
| 44 | Prevalence of Psoriatic Arthritis in a Large Cohort of Brazilian Patients with Psoriasis | Journal of Rheumatology | 2015 | 39 |
| 45 | The Physiological Roles of Carnosine and β-Alanine in Exercising Human Skeletal Muscle | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2019 | 39 |
| 46 | Quality of life measurements in patients with osteoporosis and fractures | Clinics | 2012 | 38 |
| 47 | Nitric oxide synthase inhibitor influences prostaglandin and interleukin-1 production in experimental arthritic joints | Inflammation Research | 1997 | 37 |
| 48 | Reduced exercise capacity in systemic sclerosis patients without pulmonary involvement | Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology | 2007 | 37 |
| 49 | Cross-cultural adaptation of the Behçet’s Disease Current Activity Form (BDCAF) to Brazilian Portuguese language | Clinical Rheumatology | 2007 | 37 |
| 50 | Can the Skeletal Muscle Carnosine Response to Beta-Alanine Supplementation Be Optimized? | Frontiers in Nutrition | 2019 | 37 |
