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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Azathioprine versus mycophenolate mofetil for long-term immunosuppression in lupus nephritis: results from the MAINTAIN Nephritis Trial (10 September, 2010)

  Frédéric A Houssiau, David D'Cruz, Shirish Sangle, Philippe Remy, Carlos Vasconcelos, Radmila Petrovic, Christoph Fiehn, Enrique de Ramon Garrido, Inge-Magrethe Gilboe, Maria Tektonidou, Daniel Blockmans, Isabelle Ravelingien, Véronique le Guern, Geneviève Depresseux, Loïc Guillevin, Ricard Cervera, the MAINTAIN Nephritis Trial Group
• Extended report: Impact of diabetes against the future risk of developing gout (22 June, 2010)

  García Rodríguez, Lucia Cea Soriano, Hyon K Choi
• Extended report: Decrease in serum level of matrix metalloproteinases is predictive of the disease-modifying effect of osteoarthritis drugs assessed by quantitative MRI in patients with knee osteoarthritis (22 June, 2010)

  J-P Pelletier, J-P Raynauld, J Caron, F Mineau, F Abram, M Dorais, B Haraoui, D Choquette, J Martel-Pelletier
• Extended report: Evidence that bone mineral density plays a role in degenerative disc disease: the UK Twin Spine Study (22 June, 2010)

  Gregory Livshits, Sergey Ermakov, Maria Popham, Alex J MacGregor, Philip N Sambrook, Timothy D Spector, Frances M K Williams
• Extended report: Clinical synovitis in a particular joint is associated with progression of erosions and joint space narrowing in that same joint, but not in patients initially treated with infliximab (7 July, 2010)

  N B Klarenbeek, M Güler-Yüksel, D M F M van der Heijde, H M J Hulsmans, P J S M Kerstens, T H E Molenaar, P B J de Sonnaville, T W J Huizinga, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart
• Extended report: Risk of diabetes among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis (28 June, 2010)

  Daniel H Solomon, Thorvardur Jon Love, Claire Canning, Sebastian Schneeweiss
• Extended report: Relationship between bone marrow lesions, cartilage loss and pain in knee osteoarthritis: results from a randomised controlled clinical trial using MRI (7 July, 2010)

  Lukas Martin Wildi, Jean-Pierre Raynauld, Johanne Martel-Pelletier, François Abram, Marc Dorais, Jean-Pierre Pelletier
• Extended report: Treatment strategies and outcome of induction-refractory Wegener's granulomatosis or microscopic polyangiitis: analysis of 32 patients with first-line induction-refractory disease in the WEGENT trial (19 July, 2010)

  Raphaèle Seror, Christian Pagnoux, Marc Ruivard, Isabelle Landru, Denis Wahl, Sophie Rivière, Solveig Aussant, Alfred Mahr, Pascal Cohen, Luc Mouthon, Loïc Guillevin, for the French Vasculitis Study Group
• Extended report: Decrease in sick leave among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the first 12 months after start of treatment with tumour necrosis factor antagonists: a population-based controlled cohort study (6 August, 2010)

  Tor Olofsson, Martin Englund, Tore Saxne, Anna Jöud, Lennart T H Jacobsson, Pierre Geborek, Saralynn Allaire, Ingemar F Petersson
• Extended report: Decrease in immunoglobulin free light chains in patients with rheumatoid arthritis upon rituximab (anti-CD20) treatment correlates with decrease in disease activity (2 August, 2010)

  T Groot Kormelink, J Tekstra, R M Thurlings, M H J Boumans, K Vos, P P Tak, J W J Bijlsma, F P J G Lafeber, F A Redegeld, J A G van Roon
• Extended report: Validation of a radiographic scoring system for haemochromatosis arthropathy (2 August, 2010)

  Tomáš Dallos, Enijad Sahinbegovic, Elmar Aigner, Roland Axmann, Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele, Thomas Karonitsch, Tanja Stamm, Martin Farkas, Thomas Karger, Alexander Cavallaro, Ulrich Stölzel, Gernot Keyßer, Christian Datz, Georg Schett, Bernhard Manger, Jochen Zwerina
• Extended report: Neutralisation of Dkk-1 protects from systemic bone loss during inflammation and reduces sclerostin expression (21 September, 2010)

  Gisela Ruiz Heiland, Karin Zwerina, Wolfgang Baum, Trayana Kireva, Jörg H Distler, Mario Grisanti, Frank Asuncion, Xiadong Li, Michael Ominsky, William Richards, Georg Schett, Jochen Zwerina
• Extended report: Is ASDAS better than BASDAI as a measure of disease activity in axial psoriatic arthritis? (13 July, 2010)

  Lihi Eder, Vinod Chandran, Hua Shen, Richard J Cook, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: Validation of ultrasound imaging for Achilles entheseal fibrocartilage in bovines and description of changes in humans with spondyloarthritis (19 August, 2010)

  Sibel Zehra Aydin, Emine Bas, Onur Basci, Emilio Filippucci, Richard J Wakefield, Çiğdem Çelikel, Mustafa Karahan, Pamir Atagunduz, Mike Benjamin, Haner Direskeneli, Dennis McGonagle
• Concise report: Investigation of type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease susceptibility loci for association with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (20 July, 2010)

  Anne Hinks, Paul Martin, Edward Flynn, Steve Eyre, Jon Packham, Anne Barton, Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS), UKRAG Consortium, BSPAR study group, Jane Worthington, Wendy Thomson
• Concise report: Structural and inflammatory sonographic findings in erosive and non-erosive osteoarthritis of the interphalangeal finger joints (6 August, 2010)

  Ruth Wittoek, Philippe Carron, Gust Verbruggen
• Concise report: Surrogate markers of B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in patients with hepatitis C virus-related cryoglobulinaemia vasculitis (27 September, 2010)

  Guillaume Geri, Benjamin Terrier, Oren Semoun, David Saadoun, Damien Sène, Frédéric Charlotte, Hélène Merle-Béral, Lucile Musset, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, Patrice Cacoub