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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: The effects of doxycycline on reducing symptoms in knee osteoarthritis: results from a triple-blinded randomised controlled trial (8 May, 2011) Free

  Gijs F Snijders, Cornelia HM van den Ende, Piet LCM van Riel, Frank HJ van den Hoogen, Alfons A den Broeder
• Extended report: Dysbalance of angiogenic and angiostatic mediators in patients with mixed connective tissue disease (27 May, 2011)

  Jörg H W Distler, Tobias Strapatsas, Dörte Huscher, Clara Dees, Alfiya Akhmetshina, Hans P Kiener, Ingo H Tarner, Britta Maurer, Marcel Walder, Beat Michel, Steffen Gay, Josef S Smolen, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Georg Schett, Oliver Distler
• Extended report: Progression of lumbar disc degeneration over a decade: a heritability study (13 March, 2011)

  Frances M K Williams, Maria Popham, Philip N Sambrook, Annette F Jones, Tim D Spector, Alex J MacGregor
• Extended report: Baseline tumour necrosis factor alpha levels predict the necessity for dose escalation of infliximab therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (8 April, 2011)

  Tsutomu Takeuchi, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Yoshihiko Tatsuki, Toshiro Yano, Toru Yoshinari, Tohru Abe, Takao Koike
• Extended report: Efficacy of abatacept and tocilizumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated in clinical practice: results from the nationwide Danish DANBIO registry (8 May, 2011)

  Henrik Christian Leffers, Mikkel Østergaard, Bente Glintborg, Niels Steen Krogh, Heidi Foged, Ulrik Tarp, Tove Lorenzen, Annette Hansen, Michael Sejer Hansen, Martin Skov Jacobsen, Lene Dreyer, Merete Lund Hetland
• Extended report: Clinical, radiographic, molecular and MRI-based predictors of cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis (27 May, 2011)

  F Eckstein, M P Hellio Le Graverand, H C Charles, D J Hunter, V B Kraus, T Sunyer, O Nemirovskyi, B T Wyman, R Buck, for the A9001140, investigators
• Extended report: Does smoking protect against osteoarthritis? Meta-analysis of observational studies (7 April, 2011)

  Michelle Hui, Michael Doherty, Weiya Zhang
• Extended report: Erosive hand osteoarthritis: its prevalence and clinical impact in the general population and symptomatic hand osteoarthritis (6 April, 2011)

  W Y Kwok, M Kloppenburg, F R Rosendaal, J B van Meurs, A Hofman, S M A Bierma-Zeinstra
• Extended report: Longitudinal association between coping and psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review (7 April, 2011)

  Johanna E Vriezekolk, Wim GJM van Lankveld, Rinie Geenen, Cornelia HM van den Ende
• Extended report: Predictors of radiographic progression in the ESPOIR cohort: the season of first symptoms may influence the short-term outcome in early arthritis (22 April, 2011)

  G Mouterde, C Lukas, I Logeart, R M Flipo, N Rincheval, J P Daurès, B Combe
• Extended report: Relationship between active inflammatory lesions in the spine and sacroiliac joints and new development of chronic lesions on whole-body MRI in early axial spondyloarthritis: results of the ESTHER trial at week 48 (8 May, 2011)

  I-H Song, K G Hermann, H Haibel, C E Althoff, D Poddubnyy, J Listing, A Weiß, B Freundlich, M Rudwaleit, J Sieper
• Extended report: Canakinumab reduces the risk of acute gouty arthritis flares during initiation of allopurinol treatment: results of a double-blind, randomised study (3 May, 2011)

  Naomi Schlesinger, Eduardo Mysler, Hsiao-Yi Lin, Marc De Meulemeester, Jozef Rovensky, Udayasankar Arulmani, Alison Balfour, Gerhard Krammer, Peter Sallstig, Alexander So
• Extended report: Interrater reliability and aspects of validity of the myositis damage index (27 May, 2011)

  Shabina M Sultan, Elizabeth Allen, Robert G Cooper, Sangita Agarwal, Patrick Kiely, Chester V Oddis, Jiri Vencovsky, Ingrid E Lundberg, Maryam Dastmalchi, Michael G Hanna, David A Isenberg
• Extended report: Validation of pain and patient global scales in chronic gout: data from two randomised controlled trials (27 May, 2011)

  Jasvinder A Singh, Shuo Yang, Vibeke Strand, Lee Simon, Anna Forsythe, Steve Hamburger, Lang Chen
• Concise report: Association between leptin, adiponectin and resistin and long-term progression of hand osteoarthritis (6 April, 2011)

  Erlangga Yusuf, Andreea Ioan-Facsinay, Jessica Bijsterbosch, Inge Klein-Wieringa, Joanneke Kwekkeboom, P Eline Slagboom, Tom WJ Huizinga, Margreet Kloppenburg
• Concise report: Efficacy of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in patients with drug-resistant polymyositis and dermatomyositis (27 May, 2011)

  Dandan Wang, Huayong Zhang, Mengshu Cao, Yu Tang, Jun Liang, Xuebing Feng, Hong Wang, Bingzhu Hua, Bujun Liu, Lingyun Sun
• Concise report: Pneumococcal antibody levels after pneumovax in patients with rheumatoid arthritis on methotrexate (22 April, 2011)

  Elizabeth Coulson, Vadivelu Saravanan, Jennifer Hamilton, Kin So Long, Lynn Morgan, Carol Heycock, Martin Rynne, Clive Kelly
• Concise report: Very early rheumatoid arthritis is the major predictor of major outcomes: clinical ACR remission and radiographic non-progression (22 April, 2011)

  Silvia Bosello, Anna Laura Fedele, Giusy Peluso, Elisa Gremese, Barbara Tolusso, Gianfranco Ferraccioli