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Extended reports

• Bone loss in unclassified polyarthritis and early rheumatoid arthritis is better detected by digital x ray radiogrammetry than dual x ray absorptiometry: relationship with disease activity and radiographic outcome

  (12 December, 2003)

  T Jensen, M Klarlund, M Hansen, K E Jensen, J Pødenphant, T M Hansen, H Skjødt, L Hyldstrup
• A randomised controlled trial of occupational therapy for people with early rheumatoid arthritis (12 December, 2003)

  A Hammond, A Young, R Kidao
• Endothelial dysfunction in young patients with rheumatoid arthritis and low disease activity (12 December, 2003)

  G Vaudo, S Marchesi, R Gerli, R Allegrucci, A Giordano, D Siepi, M Pirro, Y Shoenfeld, G Schillaci, E Mannarino
• Satisfactory cross cultural equivalence of the Dutch WOMAC in patients with hip osteoarthritis waiting for arthroplasty (12 December, 2003)

  L D Roorda, C A Jones, M Waltz, G J Lankhorst, L M Bouter, J W van der Eijken, W J Willems, I C Heyligers, D C Voaklander, K D Kelly, M E Suarez-Almazor
• Interferon β stimulates interleukin 1 receptor antagonist production in human articular chondrocytes and synovial fibroblasts (12 December, 2003)

  G Palmer, F Mezin, C E Juge-Aubry, C Plater-Zyberk, C Gabay, P-A Guerne
• Long term prognosis of children born to lupus patients (12 December, 2003)

  A Murashima, T Fukazawa, M Hirashima, Y Takasaki, M Oonishi, S Niijima, Y Yamashiro, A Yamataka, T Miyano, H Hashimoto
• Selective T cell receptor decrease in peripheral blood T lymphocytes of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis (12 December, 2003)

  M Lopez-Hoyos, M J Bartolome-Pacheco, R Blanco, V Rodriguez-Valverde, V M Martinez-Taboada
• Physiological levels of hydrocortisone maintain an optimal chondrocyte extracellular matrix metabolism (12 December, 2003)

  J Wang, D Elewaut, I Hoffman, E M Veys, G Verbruggen
• Metabolic activation stimulates acid secretion and expression of matrix degrading proteases in human osteoblasts (12 December, 2003)

  M George, B Stein, O Müller, M Weis-Klemm, T Pap, W J Parak, W K Aicher
• Collagen type I α1 Sp1 polymorphism, osteoporosis, and intervertebral disc degeneration in older men and women (12 December, 2003)

  S M F Pluijm, H W van Essen, N Bravenboer, A G Uitterlinden, J H Smit, H A P Pols, P Lips
• Treatment with licofelone prevents abnormal subchondral bone cell metabolism in experimental dog osteoarthritis (12 December, 2003)

  D Lajeunesse, J Martel-Pelletier, J C Fernandes, S Laufer, J-P Pelletier