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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Targeting pathophysiological rhythms: prednisone chronotherapy shows sustained efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis (11 June, 2010)

  Frank Buttgereit, Gisela Doering, Achim Schaeffler, Stephan Witte, Stanislaw Sierakowski, Erika Gromnica-Ihle, Slawomir Jeka, Klaus Krueger, Jacek Szechinski, Rieke Alten
• Extended report: Tumour necrosis factor α blockade reduces circulating N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: results from a prospective cohort study (23 November, 2009)

  Mike J L Peters, Paul Welsh, Iain B McInnes, Gertjan Wolbink, Ben A C Dijkmans, Naveed Sattar, Michael T Nurmohamed
• Extended report: Discontinuation of infliximab after attaining low disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: RRR (remission induction by Remicade in RA) study (1 April, 2010)

  Y Tanaka, T Takeuchi, T Mimori, K Saito, M Nawata, H Kameda, T Nojima, N Miyasaka, T Koike, for the RRR study investigators
• Extended report: Anti-CCP antibody and rheumatoid factor concentrations predict greater disease activity in men with rheumatoid arthritis (3 May, 2010)

  Benjamin J Miriovsky, Kaleb Michaud, Geoffrey M Thiele, James R O'Dell, Grant W Cannon, Gail Kerr, J Steuart Richards, Dannette Johnson, Liron Caplan, Andreas Reimold, Roderick Hooker, Ted R Mikuls
• Extended report: Efficacy of initial methotrexate monotherapy versus combination therapy with a biological agent in early rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-analysis of clinical and radiographic remission (26 April, 2010)

  B Kuriya, E V Arkema, V P Bykerk, E C Keystone
• Extended report: Menopause, postmenopausal hormone use and risk of incident gout (9 July, 2009)

  A Elisabeth Hak, Gary C Curhan, Francine Grodstein, Hyon K Choi
• Extended report: Total cholesterol and LDL levels decrease before rheumatoid arthritis (23 October, 2009) Free

  Elena Myasoedova, Cynthia S Crowson, Hilal Maradit Kremers, Patrick D Fitz-Gibbon, Terry M Therneau, Sherine E Gabriel
• Extended report: Association between anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment response and genetic variants within the TLR and NFκB signalling pathways (6 May, 2010)

  Catherine Potter, Heather J Cordell, Anne Barton, Ann K Daly, Kimme L Hyrich, Derek A Mann, Ann W Morgan, Anthony G Wilson, and the Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis Genetics and Genomics Study Syndicate (BRAGGSS), John D Isaacs
• Extended report: Salivary gland ultrasonography: can it be an alternative to sialography as an imaging modality for Sjögren's syndrome? (24 May, 2010)

  Yukinori Takagi, Yasuo Kimura, Hideki Nakamura, Miho Sasaki, Katsumi Eguchi, Takashi Nakamura
• Extended report:

  IL-23R gene confers susceptibility to Behcet's disease in a Chinese Han population

  (7 April, 2010)

  Zhengxuan Jiang, Peizeng Yang, Shengping Hou, Liping Du, Lin Xie, Hongyan Zhou, Aize Kijlstra
• Concise report: ITGAM coding variant (rs1143679) influences the risk of renal disease, discoid rash and immunological manifestations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with European ancestry (25 November, 2009)

  Xana Kim-Howard, Amit K Maiti, Juan-Manuel Anaya, Gail R Bruner, Elizabeth Brown, Joan T Merrill, Jeffrey C Edberg, Michelle A Petri, John D Reveille, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Graciela S Alarcon, Timothy J Vyse, Gary Gilkeson, Robert P Kimberly, Judith A James, Joel M Guthridge, John B Harley, Swapan K Nath
• Concise report: A matrix risk model for the prediction of rapid radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving different dynamic treatment strategies: post hoc analyses from the BeSt study (24 May, 2010)

  K Visser, Y P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, J K de Vries-Bouwstra, H K Ronday, P E H Seys, P J S M Kerstens, T W J Huizinga, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart
• Concise report: Comparison of a high sensitivity and standard C reactive protein measurement in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (24 May, 2010)

  DA Poddubnyy, M Rudwaleit, J Listing, J Braun, J Sieper
• Concise report: Blood pressure changes in patients with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis treated with four different treatment strategies: a post hoc analysis from the BeSt trial (14 May, 2010)

  Naomi B Klarenbeek, Sjoerd M van der Kooij, Tineke J W Huizinga, Yvonne P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, Harry M J Hulsmans, Michiel V van Krugten, Irene Speyer, Jeska K de Vries-Bouwstra, Pit J S M Kerstens, Tom W J Huizinga, Ben A C Dijkmans, Cornelia F Allaart
• Concise report: A strong familiality of ankylosing spondylitis through several generations (6 May, 2010)

  Arni Jon Geirsson, Kristleifur Kristjansson, Bjorn Gudbjornsson
• Concise report: A 78-joints ultrasonographic assessment is associated with clinical assessments and is highly responsive to improvement in a longitudinal study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis starting adalimumab treatment (14 May, 2010)

  Hilde Berner Hammer, Margareth Sveinsson, Anne Katrine Kongtorp, Tore K Kvien
• Concise report: Long-term safety of anti-TNF treatment in patients with rheumatic diseases and chronic or resolved hepatitis B virus infection (14 May, 2010)

  D Vassilopoulos, A Apostolopoulou, E Hadziyannis, G V Papatheodoridis, S Manolakopoulos, J Koskinas, E K Manesis, A I Archimandritis
• Concise report: Vascular involvement in patients with giant cell arteritis determined by duplex sonography of 2×11 arterial regions (24 May, 2010)

  Markus Aschwanden, Friederike Kesten, Martin Stern, Christoph Thalhammer, Ulrich A Walker, Alan Tyndall, Kurt A Jaeger, Christoph Hess, Thomas Daikeler
• Concise report: Validation of the 6 min walk test according to the OMERACT filter: a systematic literature review by the EPOSS-OMERACT group (14 May, 2010)

  Jérôme Avouac, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka, David Pittrow, Doerte Huscher, Frank Behrens, Christopher P Denton, Ivan Foeldvari, Marc Humbert, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Peter Nash, Christian F Opitz, Lewis J Rubin, James R Seibold, Oliver Distler, Daniel E Furst, for the EPOSS Group
• Concise report: Bone loss in very early inflammatory back pain in undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy: a 1-year observational study (6 May, 2010)

  G Haugeberg, A N Bennett, D McGonagle, P Emery, H Marzo-Ortega
• Concise report: Pain in hand osteoarthritis is associated with inflammation: the value of ultrasound (14 May, 2010)

  Marion C Kortekaas, Wing-Yee Kwok, Monique Reijnierse, Iain Watt, Tom W J Huizinga, Margreet Kloppenburg