Editorials:

Overweight: advancing our understanding of its impact on the knee and the hip

Leena Sharma and Alison Chang

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 141-142. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.059931

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Reviews:

Consensus statement on the use of rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

J S Smolen, E C Keystone, P Emery, F C Breedveld, N Betteridge, G R Burmester, M Dougados, G Ferraccioli, U Jaeger, L Klareskog, T K Kvien, E Martin-Mola, K Pavelka The Working Group on the Rituximab Consensus Statement

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 143-150.
Published Online First: 26 October 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.061002

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Extended reports:

Differential effect of methotrexate on the increased CCR2 density on circulating CD4 T lymphocytes and monocytes in active chronic rheumatoid arthritis, with a down regulation only on monocytes in responders

T Ellingsen, N Hornung, B K Møller, J H Poulsen, and K Stengaard-Pedersen

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 151-157.
Published Online First: 11 August 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054056

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Body mass index associated with onset and progression of osteoarthritis of the knee but not of the hip: The Rotterdam Study

M Reijman, H A P Pols, A P Bergink, J M W Hazes, J N Belo, A M Lievense, and S M A Bierma-Zeinstra

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 158-162.
Published Online First: 12 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.053538

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Adalimumab improves joint-related and skin-related functional impairment in patients with psoriatic arthritis: patient-reported outcomes of the Adalimumab Effectiveness in Psoriatic Arthritis Trial

D D Gladman, P J Mease, M A Cifaldi, R J Perdok, E Sasso, and J Medich

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 163-168.
Published Online First: 17 October 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.057901

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Submaximal exercise testing in the assessment of interstitial lung disease secondary to systemic sclerosis: reproducibility and correlations of the 6-min walk test

M H Buch, C P Denton, D E Furst, L Guillevin, L J Rubin, A U Wells, M Matucci-Cerinic, G Riemekasten, P Emery, H Chadha-Boreham, P Charef, S Roux, C M Black, and J R Seibold

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 169-173.
Published Online First: 25 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054866

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Abdominal manifestations in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus

O Richer, T Ulinski, I Lemelle, B Ranchin, C Loirat, J C Piette, P Pillet, P Quartier, R Salomon, B Bader-Meunier for the French Pediatric-Onset SLE Study Group

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 174-178.
Published Online First: 3 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2005.050070

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Perinatal and early childhood risk factors associated with rheumatoid factor positivity in a healthy paediatric population

Kendra A Young, Lezlie A Parrish, Gary O Zerbe, Marian Rewers, Kevin D Deane, V Michael Holers, and Jill M Norris

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 179-183. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.061846

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Lipids and inflammation: serial measurements of the lipid profile of blood donors who later developed rheumatoid arthritis

V P van Halm, M M J Nielen, M T Nurmohamed, D van Schaardenburg, H W Reesink, A E Voskuyl, J W R Twisk, R J van de Stadt, M H M T de Koning, M R Habibuw, I E van der Horst–Bruinsma, and B A C Dijkmans

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 184-188.
Published Online First: 7 June 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.051672

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Abatacept improves both the physical and mental health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have inadequate response to methotrexate treatment

A S Russell, G V Wallenstein, T Li, M C Martin, R Maclean, B Blaisdell, K Gajria, J C Cole, J-C Becker, and P Emery

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 189-194.
Published Online First: 19 September 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.057018

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Rheumatoid arthritis and genetic markers in Syrian and French populations: different effect of the shared epitope

Leyla Kazkaz, Hubert Marotte, Mayassa Hamwi, Marie Angélique Cazalis, Pascal Roy, Bruno Mougin, and Pierre Miossec

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 195-201.
Published Online First: 26 October 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2004.033829

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Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for vasculitis including Behçet’s disease and polychondritis: a retrospective analysis of patients recorded in the European Bone Marrow Transplantation and European League Against Rheumatism databases and a review of the literature

Thomas Daikeler, Ina Kötter, Chiara Bocelli Tyndall, Jane Apperley, Andishe Attarbaschi, Philippe Guardiola, Alois Gratwohl, Esa Jantunen, Alberto Marmont, Ferdinando Porretto, Maurizio Musso, Britta Maurer, Nadia Rinaldi, Riccardo Saccardi, Alan Tyndall for the EBMT Autoimmune Diseases Working Party

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 202-207.
Published Online First: 1 September 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.056630

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High prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: association with disease characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors

Cecilia P Chung, Ingrid Avalos, Annette Oeser, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Ayumi Shintani, Paolo Raggi, and C Michael Stein

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 208-214.
Published Online First: 10 August 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054973

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The cost effectiveness of behavioural graded activity in patients with osteoarthritis of hip and/or knee

Veerle M H Coupé, Cindy Veenhof, Maurits W van Tulder, Joost Dekker, Johannes W J Bijlsma, and Cornelia H M Van den Ende

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 215-221.
Published Online First: 31 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054478

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Development and validation of a consensus methodology for the classification of the ANCA-associated vasculitides and polyarteritis nodosa for epidemiological studies

Richard Watts, Suzanne Lane, Thomas Hanslik, Thomas Hauser, Bernhard Hellmich, Wenche Koldingsnes, Alfred Mahr, Mårten Segelmark, Jan W Cohen-Tervaert, and David Scott

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 222-227.
Published Online First: 10 August 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054593

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Selective costimulation modulation using abatacept in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis while receiving etanercept: a randomised clinical trial

Michael Weinblatt, Michael Schiff, Allan Goldman, Joel Kremer, Michael Luggen, Tracy Li, Dalei Chen, and Jean-Claude Becker

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 228-234.
Published Online First: 25 August 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.055111

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Combination therapy with sulfasalazine and methotrexate is more effective than either drug alone in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with a suboptimal response to sulfasalazine: results from the double-blind placebo-controlled MASCOT study

Hilary A Capell, Rajan Madhok, Duncan R Porter, Robin A L Munro, Iain B McInnes, John A Hunter, Malcolm Steven, Asad Zoma, Elaine Morrison, Martin Sambrook, Fat Wui Poon, Rosemary Hampson, Fiona McDonald, Ann Tierney, Neil Henderson, and Ian Ford

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 235-241.
Published Online First: 22 August 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.057133

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Concise reports:

A non-major histocompatibility locus determines tissue specificity in the pathogenic process underlying synovial proliferation in a mouse arthropathy model

Ming-Cai Zhang, Shiro Mori, Fumiko Date, Hiroshi Furukawa, and Masao Ono

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 242-245.
Published Online First: 25 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054999

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Influence of human leucocyte antigen-DRB1 on the susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis and on the production of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies in a Portuguese population

D Ligeiro, J E Fonseca, O Abade, I Abreu, M Cruz, P Nero, J Cavaleiro, J Teles, H Trindade, J M Caetano, and J Branco

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 246-248.
Published Online First: 22 June 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2005.051177

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Etanercept maintains the clinical benefit achieved by infliximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who discontinued infliximab because of side effects

Florenzo Iannone, Francesco Trotta, Carlomaurizio Monteccuco, Roberto Giacomelli, Mauro Galeazzi, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Clodoveo Ferri, Maurizio Cutolo, Lisa Maria Bambara, Giovanni Triolo, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Gabriele Valentini, Giovanni Lapadula on behalf of GISEA (Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio delle Early Arthritis)

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 249-252.
Published Online First: 12 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.058776

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Imaging and serum analysis of immune complex formation of radiolabelled infliximab and anti-infliximab in responders and non-responders to therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

C J van der Laken, A E Voskuyl, J C Roos, M Stigter van Walsum, E R de Groot, G Wolbink, B A C Dijkmans, and L A Aarden

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 253-256.
Published Online First: 22 June 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.057406

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Lack of association between three vascular endothelial growth factor gene polymorphisms and systemic sclerosis: results from a multicenter EUSTAR study of European Caucasian patients

Y Allanore, D Borderie, P Airo, S Guiducci, L Czirják, E L Nasonov, G Riemekasten, P Caramaschi, M Majdan, D Krasowska, E Friedl, H Lemarechal, L P Ananieva, T Nievskaya, O G Ekindjian, M Matucci-Cerinic, and A Kahan

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 257-259.
Published Online First: 1 June 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.054346

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Effects of oral glucosamine sulphate on serum glucose and insulin during an oral glucose tolerance test of subjects with osteoarthritis

B A Biggee, C M Blinn, M Nuite, J E Silbert, and T E McAlindon

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 260-262.
Published Online First: 3 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.058222

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Increased incidence of and impaired prognosis after acute myocardial infarction among patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

Anna Södergren, Birgitta Stegmayr, Vivan Lundberg, Marie-Louise Öhman, and Solveig Wållberg-Jonsson

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 263-266.
Published Online First: 19 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.052456

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Rheumatoid factor seropositivity is inversely associated with oral contraceptive use in women without rheumatoid arthritis

Shailaja S Bhatia, Darcy S Majka, John M Kittelson, Lezlie A Parrish, Elizabeth D Ferucci, Kevin D Deane, William P Arend, Marian Rewers, V Michael Holers, and Jill M Norris

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 267-269.
Published Online First: 25 July 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.060004

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Letters:

Infliximab in refractory psoriatic arthritis with severe psoriasis: a 2-year experience

Paraskevi V Voulgari, Aliki I Venetsanopoulou, Efstratios K Epagelis, Yannis Alamanos, Ioanna Takalou, and Alexandros A Drosos

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 270-271.
Published Online First: 26 October 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.058735

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Prevalence and risk factors of discordance in diagnosis of osteoporosis using spine and hip bone densitometry

Abdellah El Maghraoui, Davy A Mouinga Abayi, Imad Ghozlani, Aziza Mounach, Abderrazak Nouijai, Mirieme Ghazi, Lahsen Achemlal, and Ahmed Bezza

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 271-272. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.062372

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Investigation of association of the DLG5 gene with psoriatic arthritis

Pauline Ho, Jane Worthington, Ian N Bruce, and Anne Barton

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 273-274. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.064642

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MHC2TA is associated with rheumatoid arthritis in Japanese patients

Noriko Iikuni, Katsunori Ikari, Shigeki Momohara, Taisuke Tomatsu, Masako Hara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Hiroshi Okamoto, and Naoyuki Kamatani

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 274-275.
Published Online First: 7 November 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.063347

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QuantiFERON TB Gold Test: the new standard for screening of latent tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?

Petros Efthimiou and Sunita Sood

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 276.
Published Online First: 24 November 2006. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.061184

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Dual mycobacterial infection in the setting of leflunomide treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

S Agrawal and A Sharma

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 277. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.056283

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Demographics and environmental factors in a Wegener’s granulomatosis cluster

J H M Lee, T Attygalle, K Gaffney, and D G I Scott

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 278-279. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.056226

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MATN3 (matrilin-3) sequence variation (pT303M) is a risk factor for osteoarthritis of the CMC1 joint of the hand, but not for knee osteoarthritis

O Pullig, A Tagariello, A Schweizer, B Swoboda, P Schaller, and A Winterpacht

Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 66: 279-280. doi:10.1136/ard.2006.058263

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