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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: A randomised controlled trial of ibuprofen, paracetamol or a combination tablet of ibuprofen/paracetamol in community-derived people with knee pain (30 July, 2011) Free

  Michael Doherty, Chris Hawkey, Michael Goulder, Iain Gibb, Nicola Hill, Sue Aspley, Sandie Reader
• Extended report: Mavrilimumab, a human monoclonal antibody targeting GM-CSF receptor-α, in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase I, first-in-human study (25 May, 2011)

  Gerd R Burmester, Eugen Feist, Matthew A Sleeman, Bing Wang, Barbara White, Fabio Magrini
• Extended report: Interleukin 17 as a novel predictor of vascular function in rheumatoid arthritis (4 July, 2011)

  Wendy Marder, Shokoufeh Khalatbari, James D Myles, Rita Hench, Srilakshmi Yalavarthi, Susan Lustig, Robert Brook, Mariana J Kaplan
• Extended report:

  The Ile585Val TRPV1 variant is involved in risk of painful knee osteoarthritis

  (25 May, 2011)

  Ana M Valdes, Gert De Wilde, Sally A Doherty, Rik J Lories, Frances L Vaughn, Laura L Laslett, Rose A Maciewicz, Anushka Soni, Deborah J Hart, Weiya Zhang, Kenneth R Muir, Elaine M Dennison, Margaret Wheeler, Paul Leaverton, Cyrus Cooper, Tim D Spector, Flavia M Cicuttini, Victoria Chapman, Graeme Jones, Nigel K Arden, Michael Doherty
• Extended report: Association of circulating adiponectin levels with progression of radiographic joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (13 May, 2011)

  Jon T Giles, Desiree M van der Heijde, Joan M Bathon
• Extended report: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased autoimmune response in healthy individuals and in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (17 May, 2011)

  Lauren L Ritterhouse, Sherry R Crowe, Timothy B Niewold, Diane L Kamen, Susan R Macwana, Virginia C Roberts, Amy B Dedeke, John B Harley, R Hal Scofield, Joel M Guthridge, Judith A James
• Extended report: Highest clinical effectiveness of rituximab in autoantibody-positive patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in those for whom no more than one previous TNF antagonist has failed: pooled data from 10 European registries (12 May, 2011)

  Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Elisabeth Lie, Evgeny Nasonov, Galina Lukina, Merete Lund Hetland, Ulrik Tarp, Cem Gabay, Piet L C M van Riel, Dan C Nordström, Juan Gomez-Reino, Karel Pavelka, Matija Tomsic, Tore K Kvien, Ronald F van Vollenhoven
• Extended report: Prevalence, incidence and progression of hand osteoarthritis in the general population: the Framingham Osteoarthritis Study (27 May, 2011)

  Ida K Haugen, Martin Englund, Piran Aliabadi, Jingbo Niu, Margaret Clancy, Tore K Kvien, David T Felson
• Extended report: Repair of bone erosions in rheumatoid arthritis treated with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors is based on bone apposition at the base of the erosion (27 May, 2011)

  Stephanie Finzel, Juergen Rech, Sarah Schmidt, Klaus Engelke, Matthias Englbrecht, Christian Stach, Georg Schett
• Extended report:

  IL13 gene polymorphism is a marker for psoriatic arthritis among psoriasis patients

  (25 May, 2011)

  Lihi Eder, Vinod Chandran, Fawnda Pellett, Remy Pollock, Sutha Shanmugarajah, Cheryl F Rosen, Proton Rahman, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: Nottingham knee osteoarthritis risk prediction models (25 May, 2011)

  Weiya Zhang, Daniel F McWilliams, Sarah L Ingham, Sally A Doherty, Stella Muthuri, Kenneth R Muir, Michael Doherty
• Extended report: Aggressive Combination Drug Therapy in Very Early Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (ACUTE–JIA): a multicentre randomised open-label clinical trial (28 May, 2011)

  Pirjo Tynjälä, Paula Vähäsalo, Maarit Tarkiainen, Liisa Kröger, Kristiina Aalto, Merja Malin, Anne Putto-Laurila, Visa Honkanen, Pekka Lahdenne
• Extended report: Assessment of dynamic humeral centering in shoulder pain with impingement syndrome: a randomised clinical trial (29 May, 2011)

  Johann Beaudreuil, Sandra Lasbleiz, Pascal Richette, Gérard Seguin, Christine Rastel, Mounir Aout, Eric Vicaut, Martine Cohen-Solal, Frédéric Lioté, Marie-Christine de Vernejoul, Thomas Bardin, Philippe Orcel
• Extended report: High plasma leptin levels confer increased risk of atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus, and are associated with inflammatory oxidised lipids (13 June, 2011)

  Maureen McMahon, Brian J Skaggs, Lori Sahakian, Jennifer Grossman, John FitzGerald, Nagesh Ragavendra, Christina Charles-Schoeman, Marissa Chernishof, Alan Gorn, Joseph L Witztum, Weng Kee Wong, Michael Weisman, Daniel J Wallace, Antonio La Cava, Bevra H Hahn
• Extended report: Accelerated metacarpal bone mineral density loss is associated with radiographic progressive hand osteoarthritis (27 May, 2011)

  M Güler-Yüksel, J Bijsterbosch, C F Allaart, I Meulenbelt, H M Kroon, I Watt, W F Lems, M Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Changes in patient characteristics in anti-tumour necrosis factor clinical trials for rheumatoid arthritis: results of an analysis of the literature over the past 16 years (27 June, 2011)

  Mahboob U Rahman, Jacqui Buchanan, Mittie K Doyle, Elizabeth C Hsia, Timothy Gathany, Shreekant Parasuraman, Daniel Aletaha, Eric L Matteson, Philip G Conaghan, Edward Keystone, Désireé van der Heijde, Josef S Smolen
• Concise report:

  Confirmation of TNIP1 and IL23A as susceptibility loci for psoriatic arthritis

  (29 May, 2011)

  John Bowes, Gisela Orozco, Edward Flynn, Pauline Ho, Rasha Brier, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Laura Coates, Ross McManus, Anthony W Ryan, David Kane, Eleanor Korendowych, Neil McHugh, Oliver FitzGerald, Jonathan Packham, Ann W Morgan, Ian N Bruce, Anne Barton
• Concise report: Diagnostic performance of the ACR/EULAR 2010 criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and two diagnostic algorithms in an early arthritis clinic (REACH) (27 May, 2011)

  Celina Alves, Jolanda Jacoba Luime, Derkjen van Zeben, Anne-Margriet Huisman, Angelique Elisabeth Adriana Maria Weel, Pieternella Johanna Barendregt, Johanna Maria Wilhelmina Hazes
• Concise report:

  Deletion of LCE3C_LCE3B is associated with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus in the Chinese Han population

  (30 May, 2011)

  Xiaolan Lu, Jianping Guo, Xujie Zhou, Ru Li, Xia Liu, Yi Zhao, Baoli Zhu, Xiangyuan Liu, Jianhua Xu, Ping Zhu, Xinyu Wu, Jing He, Xu Liu, Hong Zhang, Zhanguo Li
• Concise report: Efficacy and safety of long-term low molecular weight heparin in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (30 May, 2011)

  José Antonio Vargas-Hitos, Oier Ateka-Barrutia, Shirish Sangle, Munther A Khamashta