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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Uric acid and incident dementia over 12 years of follow-up: a population-based cohort study (28 July, 2017) Free

  Augustin Latourte, Aicha Soumaré, Thomas Bardin, Fernando Perez-Ruiz, Stéphanie Debette, Pascal Richette
• Extended report: Clinical Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score proves to be a useful tool in treat-to-target therapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (14 November, 2017)

  Joost F Swart, E H Pieter van Dijkhuizen, Nico M Wulffraat, Sytze de Roock
• Extended report: Validation of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) Questionnaire and its potential as a single-item outcome measure in clinical practice (16 November, 2017)

  Richard Holland, William Tillett, Eleanor Korendowych, Charlotte Cavill, Nicola Waldron, Melanie Brooke, Neil J McHugh
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of tocilizumab in patients with refractory Takayasu arteritis: results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial in Japan (the TAKT study) (30 November, 2017)

  Yoshikazu Nakaoka, Mitsuaki Isobe, Syuji Takei, Yoshiya Tanaka, Tomonori Ishii, Shumpei Yokota, Akira Nomura, Seitaro Yoshida, Norihiro Nishimoto
• Extended report: A pivotal phase III, randomised, placebo-controlled study of belimumab in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus located in China, Japan and South Korea (2 January, 2018)

  Fengchun Zhang, Sang-Cheol Bae, Damon Bass, Myron Chu, Sally Egginton, David Gordon, David A Roth, Jie Zheng, Yoshiya Tanaka
• Extended report: Presence of monosodium urate crystal deposition by dual-energy CT in patients with gout treated with allopurinol (16 November, 2017)

  Nicola Dalbeth, Savvas Nicolaou, Scott Baumgartner, Jia Hu, Maple Fung, Hyon K Choi
• Extended report: Development of the CT Syndesmophyte Score (CTSS) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: data from the SIAS cohort (10 November, 2017)

  Freek de Bruin, Anoek de Koning, Rosaline van den Berg, Xenofon Baraliakos, Juergen Braun, Sofia Ramiro, Floris A van Gaalen, Monique Reijnierse, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Identification of a novel locus on chromosome 2q13, which predisposes to clinical vertebral fractures independently of bone density (23 November, 2017)

  Nerea Alonso, Karol Estrada, Omar M E Albagha, Lizbeth Herrera, Sjur Reppe, Ole K Olstad, Kaare M Gautvik, Niamh M Ryan, Kathryn L Evans, Carrie M Nielson, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Douglas P Kiel, George Markozannes, Evangelia E Ntzani, Evangelos Evangelou, Bjarke Feenstra, Xueping Liu, Mads Melbye, Laura Masi, Maria Luisa Brandi, Philip Riches, Anna Daroszewska, José Manuel Olmos, Carmen Valero, Jesús Castillo, José A Riancho, Lise B Husted, Bente L Langdahl, Matthew A Brown, Emma L Duncan, Stephen Kaptoge, Kay-Tee Khaw, Ricardo Usategui-Martín, Javier Del Pino-Montes, Rogelio González-Sarmiento, Joshua R Lewis, Richard L Prince, Patrizia D’Amelio, Natalia García-Giralt, Xavier Nogués, Simona Mencej-Bedrac, Janja Marc, Orit Wolstein, John A Eisman, Ling Oei, Carolina Medina-Gómez, Katharina E Schraut, Pau Navarro, James F Wilson, Gail Davies, John Starr, Ian Deary, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Fernando Gianfrancesco, Luigi Gennari, Gavin Lucas, Roberto Elosua, André G Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, Stuart H Ralston
• Extended report: Biomarker-related risk for myocardial infarction and serious infections in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study (21 December, 2017)

  Jeffrey R Curtis, Fenglong Xie, Lang Chen, Kenneth G Saag, Huifeng Yun, Paul Muntner
• Extended report: Rheumatic disorders associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with cancer—clinical aspects and relationship with tumour response: a single-centre prospective cohort study (16 November, 2017)

  Marie Kostine, Léa Rouxel, Thomas Barnetche, Rémi Veillon, Florent Martin, Caroline Dutriaux, Léa Dousset, Anne Pham-Ledard, Sorilla Prey, Marie Beylot-Barry, Amaury Daste, Marine Gross-Goupil, Julie Lallier, Alain Ravaud, Edouard Forcade, Bernard Bannwarth, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Christophe Richez, Nadia Mehsen, Thierry Schaeverbeke
• Extended report: Work disability in gout: a population-based case–control study (23 November, 2017)

  Valgerdur Sigurdardottir, Panagiota Drivelegka, Anna Svärd, Lennart T H Jacobsson, Mats Dehlin
• Extended report: Inequity in biological DMARD prescription for spondyloarthritis across the globe: results from the ASAS-COMOSPA study (8 December, 2017)

  Elena Nikiphorou, Désirée van der Heijde, Sam Norton, Robert BM Landewé, Anna Molto, Maxime Dougados, Filip E Van den Bosch, Sofia Ramiro
• Concise report: Effect of rituximab on a salivary gland ultrasound score in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: results of the TRACTISS randomised double-blind multicentre substudy (23 December, 2017)

  Benjamin A Fisher, Colin C Everett, John Rout, John L O’Dwyer, Paul Emery, Costantino Pitzalis, Wan-Fai Ng, Andrew Carr, Colin T Pease, Elizabeth J Price, Nurhan Sutcliffe, Jimmy Makdissi, Anwar R Tappuni, Nagui S T Gendi, Frances C Hall, Sharon P Ruddock, Catherine Fernandez, Claire T Hulme, Kevin A Davies, Christopher John Edwards, Peter C Lanyon, Robert J Moots, Euthalia Roussou, Andrea Richards, Linda D Sharples, Michele Bombardieri, Simon J Bowman