Table of contents

Extended report

• Factors that modify the association between knee pain and mobility limitation in older women: the Women's Health and Aging Study (1 May, 2000)

  S E Lamb, J M Guralnik, D M Buchner, L M Ferrucci, M C Hochberg, E M Simonsick, L P Fried
• The oxidative metabolism of circulating phagocytes in ankylosing spondylitis: determination by whole blood chemiluminescence (1 May, 2000)

  Kuo-Jang Ho, Po-Quang Chen, Chiung-Yu Chang, Fung-Jou Lu
• Detection of multiple viral DNA species in synovial tissue and fluid of patients with early arthritis (1 May, 2000)

  Hans-Detlev Stahl, Bernd Hubner, Bernd Seidl, Uwe G Liebert, Ineke M van der Heijden, Bert Wilbrink, Maarten C Kraan, Frank Emmrich, Paul P Tak
• Percentage of glycosylated serum ferritin remains low throughout the course of adult onset Still's disease (1 May, 2000)

  Stéphane Vignes, Gisèle Le Moël, Bruno Fautrel, Bertrand Wechsler, Pierre Godeau, Jean-Charles Piette
• Effect of circulating immune complexes on the binding of rheumatoid factor to histones (1 May, 2000)

  Hélène A Elicha Gussin, Katherine L Russo, Marius Teodorescu
• Systemic scleroderma in Greece: low mortality and strong linkage with HLA-DRB1*1104 allele (1 May, 2000)

  Panayiotis G Vlachoyiannopoulos, Urania G Dafni, Ioannis Pakas, Marylin Spyropoulou-Vlachou, Catherine Stavropoulos-Giokas, Haralampos M Moutsopoulos
• Does location of vertebral deformity within the spine influence back pain and disability? (1 May, 2000)

  W Cockerill, A A Ismail, C Cooper, C Matthis, H Raspe, A J Silman, T W O'Neill, the European Vertebral Osteoporosis Study (EVOS) Group*
• Pneumomediastinum in dermatomyositis: association with cutaneous vasculopathy (1 May, 2000)

  Hajime Kono, Shigeko Inokuma, Hisanori Nakayama, Mie Suzuki
• Diagnosis and monitoring of central nervous system involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus: value of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET (1 May, 2000)

  S M Weiner, A Otte, M Schumacher, R Klein, J Gutfleisch, I Brink, P Otto, E U Nitzsche, E Moser, H H Peter