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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Comparison of performance of the 2016 ACR-EULAR classification criteria for primary Sjögren's syndrome with other sets of criteria in Japanese patients (22 March, 2017)

  Hiroto Tsuboi, Shinya Hagiwara, Hiromitsu Asashima, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Tomoya Hirota, Hisashi Noma, Hisanori Umehara, Atsushi Kawakami, Hideki Nakamura, Hajime Sano, Kazuo Tsubota, Yoko Ogawa, Etsuko Takamura, Ichiro Saito, Hiroko Inoue, Seiji Nakamura, Masafumi Moriyama, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Yoshiya Tanaka, Shintaro Hirata, Tsuneyo Mimori, Isao Matsumoto, Takayuki Sumida
• Extended report: Long-term efficacy and safety in patients with rheumatoid arthritis continuing on SB4 or switching from reference etanercept to SB4 (9 August, 2017)

  Paul Emery, Jiří Vencovský, Anna Sylwestrzak, Piotr Leszczyński, Wieslawa Porawska, Barbara Stasiuk, Joanna Hilt, Zdenka Mosterova, Soo Yeon Cheong, Jeehoon Ghil
• Extended report: Epidemiology and burden of systemic lupus erythematosus in a Southern European population: data from the community-based lupus registry of Crete, Greece (5 August, 2017)

  Irini Gergianaki, Antonis Fanouriakis, Argyro Repa, Michalis Tzanakakis, Christina Adamichou, Alexandra Pompieri, Giorgis Spirou, Antonios Bertsias, Eleni Kabouraki, Ioannis Tzanakis, Leda Chatzi, Prodromos Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios T Boumpas, George K Bertsias
• Extended report: Sirukumab for rheumatoid arthritis: the phase III SIRROUND-D study (30 August, 2017)

  Tsutomu Takeuchi, Carter Thorne, George Karpouzas, Shihong Sheng, Weichun Xu, Ravi Rao, Kaiyin Fei, Benjamin Hsu, Paul P Tak
• Extended report: Survival in adults and children with systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of studies from 1950 to 2016 (9 August, 2017)

  Maria G Tektonidou, Laura B Lewandowski, Jinxian Hu, Abhijit Dasgupta, Michael M Ward
• Extended report: Long-term outcomes and secondary prevention after acute coronary events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (20 August, 2017)

  Ängla Mantel, Marie Holmqvist, Tomas Jernberg, Solveig Wållberg-Jonsson, Johan Askling
• Extended report: Spectrum of lymphomas across different drug treatment groups in rheumatoid arthritis: a European registries collaborative project (19 August, 2017)

  Louise K Mercer, Anne C Regierer, Xavier Mariette, William G Dixon, Eva Baecklund, Karin Hellgren, Lene Dreyer, Merete Lund Hetland, René Cordtz, Kimme Hyrich, Anja Strangfeld, Angela Zink, Helena Canhao, M Victoria Hernandez, Florence Tubach, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Jacques Morel, Jakub Zavada, Florenzo Iannone, Johan Askling, Joachim Listing
• Extended report: Calprotectin as a marker of inflammation in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (16 August, 2017)

  Maria Karolina Jonsson, Nina Paulshus Sundlisæter, Hilde Haugedal Nordal, Hilde Berner Hammer, Anna-Birgitte Aga, Inge Christoffer Olsen, Karl Albert Brokstad, Désirée van der Heijde, Tore K Kvien, Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang, Siri Lillegraven, Espen A Haavardsholm
• Extended report: The effects of structural damage on functional disability in psoriatic arthritis (23 August, 2017)

  Andreas Kerschbaumer, Daniel Baker, Josef S Smolen, Daniel Aletaha
• Extended report: Genome-wide association and functional studies identify a role for matrix Gla protein in osteoarthritis of the hand (30 August, 2017)

  Wouter den Hollander, Cindy G Boer, Deborah J Hart, Michelle S Yau, Yolande F M Ramos, Sarah Metrustry, Linda Broer, Joris Deelen, L Adrienne Cupples, Fernando Rivadeneira, Margreet Kloppenburg, Marjolein Peters, Tim D Spector, Albert Hofman, P Eline Slagboom, Rob G H H Nelissen, André G Uitterlinden, David T Felson, Ana M Valdes, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Joyce J B van Meurs
• Extended report: Optimal methotrexate dose is associated with better clinical outcomes than non-optimal dose in daily practice: results from the ESPOIR early arthritis cohort (2 September, 2017)

  Cécile Gaujoux-Viala, Nathalie Rincheval, Maxime Dougados, Bernard Combe, Bruno Fautrel
• Concise report: Successful treatment of arthritis induced by checkpoint inhibitors with tocilizumab: a case series (22 August, 2017)

  Sang Taek Kim, Jean Tayar, Van Anh Trinh, Maria Suarez-Almazor, Salvador Garcia, Patrick Hwu, Daniel Hartman Johnson, Marc Uemura, Adi Diab
• Concise report: Allopurinol dose escalation to achieve serum urate below 6 mg/dL: an open-label extension study (22 August, 2017)

  Lisa K Stamp, Peter T Chapman, Murray Barclay, Anne Horne, Christopher Frampton, Paul Tan, Jill Drake, Nicola Dalbeth
• Concise report: Remission and Low Disease Activity Status (LDAS) protect lupus patients from damage occurrence: data from a multiethnic, multinational Latin American Lupus Cohort (GLADEL) (22 September, 2017)

  Manuel Francisco Ugarte-Gil, Daniel Wojdyla, Guillermo J Pons-Estel, Luis J Catoggio, Cristina Drenkard, Judith Sarano, Guillermo A Berbotto, Eduardo F Borba, Emilia Inoue Sato, João C Tavares Brenol, Oscar Uribe, Luis A Ramirez Gómez, Marlene Guibert-Toledano, Loreto Massardo, Mario H Cardiel, Luis H Silveira, Rosa Chacón-Diaz, Graciela S Alarcón, Bernardo A Pons-Estel