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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: A tool to identify recent or present rheumatoid arthritis flare from both patient and physician perspectives: The ‘FLARE’ instrument (9 November, 2011) Free

  Jean-Marie Berthelot, Michel De Bandt, Jacques Morel, Fatima Benatig, Arnaud Constantin, Philippe Gaudin, Xavier Le Loet, Jean-Francis Maillefert, Olivier Meyer, Thao Pham, Alain Saraux, Elisabeth Solau-Gervais, Elisabeth Spitz, Daniel Wendling, Bruno Fautrel, Francis Guillemin
• Extended report: Investigation of rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility loci in juvenile idiopathic arthritis confirms high degree of overlap (31 January, 2012)

  Anne Hinks, Joanna Cobb, Marc Sudman, Stephen Eyre, Paul Martin, Edward Flynn, Jonathon Packham, Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS), UK RA Genetics (UKRAG) Consortium, British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology (BSPAR) Study Group, Anne Barton, Jane Worthington, Carl D Langefeld, David N Glass, Susan D Thompson, Wendy Thomson
• Extended report: Validity and predictive ability of the juvenile arthritis disease activity score based on CRP versus ESR in a Nordic population-based setting (17 January, 2012)

  E B Nordal, M Zak, K Aalto, L Berntson, A Fasth, T Herlin, P Lahdenne, S Nielsen, S Peltoniemi, B Straume, M Rygg
• Extended report: Immediate and delayed impact of oral glucocorticoid therapy on risk of serious infection in older patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nested case–control analysis (12 January, 2012)

  William G Dixon, Michal Abrahamowicz, Marie-Eve Beauchamp, David W Ray, Sasha Bernatsky, Samy Suissa, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
• Extended report: A comparative effectiveness study of adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab in biologically naive and switched rheumatoid arthritis patients: results from the US CORRONA registry (30 January, 2012)

  Jeffrey D Greenberg, George Reed, Dennis Decktor, Leslie Harrold, Daniel Furst, Allan Gibofsky, Ralph DeHoratius, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Joel M Kremer
• Extended report: Comparison of health-related quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis and effects of etanercept treatment (17 January, 2012)

  Vibeke Strand, Veronika Sharp, Andrew S Koenig, Grace Park, Yifei Shi, Brian Wang, Debra J Zack, David Fiorentino
• Extended report: Aortic stiffness is increased in polymyalgia rheumatica and improves after steroid treatment (20 January, 2012)

  Giuseppe Schillaci, Elena Bartoloni, Giacomo Pucci, Matteo Pirro, Laura Settimi, Alessia Alunno, Roberto Gerli, Elmo Mannarino
• Extended report: Cholesterol efflux by high density lipoproteins is impaired in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (20 January, 2012)

  Christina Charles-Schoeman, Yuen Yin Lee, Victor Grijalva, Sogol Amjadi, John FitzGerald, Veena K Ranganath, Mihaela Taylor, Maureen McMahon, Harold E Paulus, Srinivasa T Reddy
• Extended report: Fibrinogen and factor XIII A-subunit genotypes interactively influence C-reactive protein levels during inflammation (20 January, 2012)

  Berthold Hoppe, Thomas Häupl, Alla Skapenko, Sabine Ziemer, Rudolf Tauber, Abdulgabar Salama, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, Thomas Dörner
• Extended report: Large vessel involvement in biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis: prospective study in 40 newly diagnosed patients using CT angiography (20 January, 2012)

  Sergio Prieto-González, Pedro Arguis, Ana García-Martínez, Georgina Espígol-Frigolé, Itziar Tavera-Bahillo, Montserrat Butjosa, Marcelo Sánchez, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Josep M Grau, Maria C Cid
• Extended report: An International registry on Autoinflammatory diseases: the Eurofever experience (29 February, 2012)

  Natasa Toplak, Joost Frenkel, Seza Ozen, Helen J Lachmann, Patricia Woo, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Fabrizio De Benedetti, Benedicte Neven, Michael Hofer, Pavla Dolezalova, Jasmin Kümmerle-Deschner, Isabelle Touitou, Veronique Hentgen, Anna Simon, Herman Girschick, Carlos Rose, Carine Wouters, Richard Vesely, Juan Arostegui, Silvia Stojanov, Huri Ozgodan, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto, Marco Gattorno, for the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO), Eurotraps and Eurofever Projects
• Extended report: A phase II, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study of BMS945429 (ALD518) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with an inadequate response to methotrexate (10 February, 2012)

  P Mease, V Strand, L Shalamberidze, A Dimic, T Raskina, Li-An Xu, Y Liu, J Smith
• Extended report: Definition of treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis based on the simplified and the clinical disease activity index (27 March, 2012)

  Daniel Aletaha, Jose Martinez-Avila, Tore K Kvien, Josef S Smolen
• Extended report:

  IRF5 polymorphism predicts prognosis in patients with systemic sclerosis

  (22 March, 2012)

  Roozbeh Sharif, Maureen D Mayes, Filemon K Tan, Olga Y Gorlova, Laura Kathleen Hummers, Ami A Shah, Daniel E Furst, Dinesh Khanna, Javier Martin, Lara Bossini-Castillo, Emilio B Gonzalez, Jun Ying, Hilda Torres Draeger, Sandeep K Agarwal, John D Reveille, Frank C Arnett, Fredrick M Wigley, Shervin Assassi
• Concise report: Is there a sex bias in prescribing anti-tumour necrosis factor medications to patients with rheumatoid arthritis? A nation-wide cross-sectional study (13 April, 2012)

  Elizabeth V Arkema, Martin Neovius, Joel K Joelsson, Julia F Simard, Ronald F van Vollenhoven
• Concise report: The degree of spinal inflammation is similar in patients with axial spondyloarthritis who report high or low levels of disease activity: a cohort study (20 April, 2012)

  U Kiltz, X Baraliakos, P Karakostas, M Igelmann, L Kalthoff, C Klink, D Krause, E Schmitz-Bortz, M Flörecke, M Bollow, J Braun
• Concise report: Frequency and duration of drug-free remission after 1 year of treatment with etanercept versus sulfasalazine in early axial spondyloarthritis: 2 year data of the ESTHER trial (22 March, 2012)

  In-Ho Song, Christian E Althoff, Hildrun Haibel, Kay-Geert A Hermann, Denis Poddubnyy, Joachim Listing, Anja Weiß, Svetlana Djacenko, Gerd R Burmester, Martin Bohl-Bühler, Bruce Freundlich, Martin Rudwaleit, Joachim Sieper
• Concise report: Coexistence of hypothyroidism with inflammatory arthritis is associated with cardiovascular disease in women (14 March, 2012)

  Hennie G Raterman, Mark M J Nielen, Mike J L Peters, Robert A Verheij, Michael T Nurmohamed, Francois G Schellevis