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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Rituximab dissociates the tight link between disease activity and joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis patients (21 August, 2012) Free

  Daniel Aletaha, Farideh Alasti, Josef S Smolen
• A systematic literature review of strategies promoting early referral and reducing delays in the diagnosis and management of inflammatory arthritis (24 April, 2012)

  Edith Villeneuve, Jackie L Nam, Mary J Bell, Christopher M Deighton, David T Felson, Johanna M Hazes, Iain B McInnes, Alan J Silman, Daniel H Solomon, Andrew E Thompson, Patience H P White, Vivian P Bykerk, Paul Emery
• Suppression of inflammation and effects on new bone formation in ankylosing spondylitis: evidence for a window of opportunity in disease modification (5 May, 2012)

  Walter P Maksymowych, Nathalie Morency, Barbara Conner-Spady, Robert G Lambert
• Associations of CTX-II with biochemical markers of bone turnover raise questions on its tissue origin: data from CHECK, a cohort study of early osteoarthritis (11 June, 2012)

  Willem E van Spil, K Wiepke Drossaers-Bakker, Floris PJG Lafeber
• Mycobacterial diseases and antitumour necrosis factor therapy in USA (20 April, 2012)

  KL Winthrop, R Baxter, L Liu, CD Varley, JR Curtis, JW Baddley, B McFarland, D Austin, L Radcliffe, EB Suhler, D Choi, JT Rosenbaum, LJ Herrinton
• Adding tocilizumab or switching to tocilizumab monotherapy in methotrexate inadequate responders: 24-week symptomatic and structural results of a 2-year randomised controlled strategy trial in rheumatoid arthritis (ACT-RAY) (5 May, 2012)

  Maxime Dougados, Karsten Kissel, Tom Sheeran, Paul P Tak, Philip G Conaghan, Emilio Martín Mola, Georg Schett, Howard Amital, Federico Navarro-Sarabia, Antony Hou, Corrado Bernasconi, TWJ Huizinga
• Ultrasonographic assessment of osteophytes in 127 patients with hand osteoarthritis: exploring reliability and associations with MRI, radiographs and clinical joint findings (20 April, 2012)

  Alexander Mathiessen, Ida Kristin Haugen, Barbara Slatkowsky-Christensen, Pernille Bøyesen, Tore K Kvien, Hilde Berner Hammer
• Impact of tumour necrosis factor inhibitor treatment on radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis patients in clinical practice: results from the nationwide Danish DANBIO registry (24 April, 2012)

  Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Mikkel Østergaard, Pernille Bøyesen, Niels Steen Krogh, Anja Thormann, Ulrik Tarp, Uta Engling Poulsen, Jakob Espesen, Vibeke Stevenius Ringsdal, Niels Graudal, Gina Kollerup, Dorte Vendelbo Jensen, Ole Rintek Madsen, Bente Glintborg, Torben Christensen, Hanne Lindegaard, Ditte Dencker, Annette Hansen, Anne Rødgaard Andersen, Merete Lund Hetland
• Clinical, functional and radiographic consequences of achieving stable low disease activity and remission with adalimumab plus methotrexate or methotrexate alone in early rheumatoid arthritis: 26-week results from the randomised, controlled OPTIMA study (5 May, 2012)

  Arthur Kavanaugh, Roy M Fleischmann, Paul Emery, Hartmut Kupper, Laura Redden, Benoit Guerette, Sourav Santra, Josef S Smolen
• Induction therapy with a combination of DMARDs is better than methotrexate monotherapy: first results of the tREACH trial (7 June, 2012)

  P H de Jong, J M Hazes, P J Barendregt, M Huisman, D van Zeben, P A van der Lubbe, A H Gerards, M H de Jager, P B de Sonnaville, B A Grillet, J J Luime, A E Weel
• Incidences of overall and site specific cancers in TNFα inhibitor treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other arthritides – a follow-up study from the DANBIO Registry (3 September, 2012)

  Lene Dreyer, Lene Mellemkjær, Anne Rødgaard Andersen, Philip Bennett, Uta Engling Poulsen, Torkell Juulsgaard Ellingsen, Torben Høiland Hansen, Dorte Vendelbo Jensen, Louise Linde, Hanne Merete Lindegaard, Anne Gitte Rasmussen Loft, Henrik Nordin, Emina Omerovic, Claus Rasmussen, Annette Schlemmer, Ulrik Tarp, Merete Lund Hetland
• Markers of inflammation and bone remodelling associated with improvement in clinical response measures in psoriatic arthritis patients treated with golimumab (12 September, 2012)

  Carrie L Wagner, Sudha Visvanathan, Michael Elashoff, Iain B McInnes, Philip J Mease, Gerald G Krueger, Frederick T Murphy, Kim Papp, Juan J Gomez-Reino, Michael Mack, Anna Beutler, Dafna Gladman, Arthur Kavanaugh