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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Subcutaneous golimumab for children with active polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results of a multicentre, double-blind, randomised-withdrawal trial (15 May, 2017)

  Hermine I Brunner, Nicolino Ruperto, Nikolay Tzaribachev, Gerd Horneff, Vyacheslav G Chasnyk, Violeta Panaviene, Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Andreas Reiff, Ekaterina Alexeeva, Nadina Rubio-Pérez, Vladimir Keltsev, Daniel J Kingsbury, Maria del Rocio Maldonado Velázquez, Irina Nikishina, Earl D Silverman, Rik Joos, Elzbieta Smolewska, Márcia Bandeira, Kirsten Minden, Annet van Royen-Kerkhof, Wolfgang Emminger, Ivan Foeldvari, Bernard R Lauwerys, Flavio Sztajnbok, Keith E Gilmer, Zhenhua Xu, Jocelyn H Leu, Lilianne Kim, Sarah L Lamberth, Matthew J Loza, Daniel J Lovell, Alberto Martini
• Extended report: The EuroMyositis registry: an international collaborative tool to facilitate myositis research (30 August, 2017)

  James B Lilleker, Jiri Vencovsky, Guochun Wang, Lucy R Wedderburn, Louise Pyndt Diederichsen, Jens Schmidt, Paula Oakley, Olivier Benveniste, Maria Giovanna Danieli, Katalin Danko, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy, Monica Vazquez-Del Mercado, Helena Andersson, Boel De Paepe, Jan L deBleecker, Britta Maurer, Liza J McCann, Nicolo Pipitone, Neil McHugh, Zoe E Betteridge, Paul New, Robert G Cooper, William E Ollier, Janine A Lamb, Niels Steen Krogh, Ingrid E Lundberg, Hector Chinoy
• Extended report: Mortality in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: results from a Swedish nationwide population-based cohort study (16 August, 2017)

  Gerd Cecilie Dobloug, John Svensson, Ingrid E Lundberg, Marie Holmqvist
• Extended report: Impact of risk factors associated with cardiovascular outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (6 September, 2017)

  Cynthia S Crowson, Silvia Rollefstad, Eirik Ikdahl, George D Kitas, Piet L C M van Riel, Sherine E Gabriel, Eric L Matteson, Tore K Kvien, Karen Douglas, Aamer Sandoo, Elke Arts, Solveig Wållberg-Jonsson, Lena Innala, George Karpouzas, Patrick H Dessein, Linda Tsang, Hani El-Gabalawy, Carol Hitchon, Virginia Pascual Ramos, Irazú Contreras Yáñez, Petros P Sfikakis, Evangelia Zampeli, Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay, Alfonso Corrales, Mart van de Laar, Harald E Vonkeman, Inger Meek, Anne Grete Semb
• Extended report: Abatacept in the treatment of adult dermatomyositis and polymyositis: a randomised, phase IIb treatment delayed-start trial (9 October, 2017)

  Anna Tjärnlund, Quan Tang, Cecilia Wick, Maryam Dastmalchi, Herman Mann, Jana Tomasová Studýnková, Radka Chura, Nicola J Gullick, Rosaria Salerno, Johan Rönnelid, Helene Alexanderson, Eva Lindroos, Rohit Aggarwal, Patrick Gordon, Jiri Vencovsky, Ingrid E Lundberg
• Extended report: TNF blockers inhibit spinal radiographic progression in ankylosing spondylitis by reducing disease activity: results from the Swiss Clinical Quality Management cohort (22 September, 2017)

  Christoph Molnar, Almut Scherer, Xenofon Baraliakos, Manouk de Hooge, Raphael Micheroli, Pascale Exer, Rudolf O Kissling, Giorgio Tamborrini, Lukas M Wildi, Michael J Nissen, Pascal Zufferey, Jürg Bernhard, Ulrich Weber, Robert B M Landewé, Désirée van der Heijde, Adrian Ciurea
• Extended report:

  The value of ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT in identifying the cause of fever of unknown origin (FUO) and inflammation of unknown origin (IUO): data from a prospective study

  (19 September, 2017)

  Verena Schönau, Kristin Vogel, Matthias Englbrecht, Jochen Wacker, Daniela Schmidt, Bernhard Manger, Torsten Kuwert, Georg Schett
• Extended report: Modification of structural lesions on MRI of the sacroiliac joints by etanercept in the EMBARK trial: a 12-week randomised placebo-controlled trial in patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (29 September, 2017)

  Walter P Maksymowych, Stephanie Wichuk, Maxime Dougados, Heather E Jones, Ron Pedersen, Annette Szumski, Lisa Marshall, Jack F Bukowski, Robert G Lambert
• Extended report: Mortality following new-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis: has modern Rheumatology had an impact? (26 September, 2017)

  Marie Holmqvist, Lotta Ljung, Johan Askling
• Extended report: Effect of bisphosphonates on knee replacement surgery (7 October, 2017)

  Tuhina Neogi, Shanshan Li, Christine Peloquin, Devyani Misra, Yuqing Zhang
• Extended report: Metabolic and cardiovascular benefits of hydroxychloroquine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (25 September, 2017)

  Claire Rempenault, Bernard Combe, Thomas Barnetche, Cécile Gaujoux-Viala, Cédric Lukas, Jacques Morel, Charlotte Hua
• Extended report: Lupus low disease activity state is associated with a decrease in damage progression in Caucasian patients with SLE, but overlaps with remission (26 September, 2017)

  Margherita Zen, Luca Iaccarino, Mariele Gatto, Francesca Saccon, Maddalena Larosa, Anna Ghirardello, Leonardo Punzi, Andrea Doria
• Extended report: Clinical and radiological outcomes of 5-year drug-free remission-steered treatment in patients with early arthritis: IMPROVED study (28 September, 2017)

  Gülşah Akdemir, Lotte Heimans, Sytske Anne Bergstra, Robbert J Goekoop, Maikel van Oosterhout, Johannes H L M van Groenendael, André J Peeters, Gerda M Steup-Beekman, Leroy R Lard, Peter B J de Sonnaville, Bernard A M Grillet, Tom W J Huizinga, Cornelia F Allaart
• Extended report: Smoking paradox in the development of psoriatic arthritis among patients with psoriasis: a population-based study (4 November, 2017)

  Uyen-Sa D T Nguyen, Yuqing Zhang, Na Lu, Qiong Louie-Gao, Jingbo Niu, Alexis Ogdie, Joel M Gelfand, Michael P LaValley, Maureen Dubreuil, Jeffrey A Sparks, Elizabeth W Karlson, Hyon K Choi
• Concise report: An Assessment in SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS)-endorsed definition of clinically important worsening in axial spondyloarthritis based on ASDAS (16 October, 2017)

  Anna Molto, Laure Gossec, Bhowmik Meghnathi, Robert B M Landewé, Désirée van der Heijde, Pamir Atagunduz, Bassel Kamal Elzorkany, Nurullah Akkoc, Uta Kiltz, Jieruo Gu, James Cheng Chung Wei, Maxime Dougados
• Concise report: Factors associated with disease progression in early-diagnosed pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with systemic sclerosis: longitudinal data from the DETECT cohort (23 October, 2017)

  Carina Mihai, Milos Antic, Rucsandra Dobrota, Diana Bonderman, Harbajan Chadha-Boreham, John Gerry Coghlan, Christopher P Denton, Martin Doelberg, Ekkehard Grünig, Dinesh Khanna, Vallerie V McLaughlin, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Janet E Pope, Daniel M Rosenberg, James R Seibold, Madelon C Vonk, Oliver Distler