Table of contents

Extended reports

• Healthcare services for those with musculoskeletal conditions: a rheumatology service. Recommendations of the European Union of Medical Specialists Section of Rheumatology/European Board of Rheumatology 2006 (7 December, 2006) Free

  Anthony D Woolf
• High IgA rheumatoid factor levels are associated with poor clinical response to tumour necrosis factor α inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis (1 November, 2006)

  Francesca Bobbio-Pallavicini, Roberto Caporali, Claudia Alpini, Stefano Avalle, Oscar M Epis, Catherine Klersy, Carlomaurizio Montecucco
• Risk and predictors of infection leading to hospitalisation in a large primary-care-derived cohort of patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (19 September, 2006)

  Jarrod Franklin, Mark Lunt, Diane Bunn, Deborah Symmons, Alan Silman
• Do psychological factors predict outcome in both low-back pain and shoulder pain? (17 August, 2006)

  Daniëlle A W M van der Windt, Ton Kuijpers, Petra Jellema, Geert J M G van der Heijden, Lex M Bouter
• A functional M196R polymorphism of tumour necrosis factor receptor type 2 is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case–control study and a meta-analysis (6 October, 2006)

  Takahiko Horiuchi, Chikako Kiyohara, Hiroshi Tsukamoto, Takuya Sawabe, Isao Furugo, Seiji Yoshizawa, Akira Ueda, Yoshifumi Tada, Tadashi Nakamura, Yasutaka Kimoto, Hiroki Mitoma, Shinichi Harashima, Shigeru Yoshizawa, Terufumi Shimoda, Seiich Okamura, Kohei Nagasawa, Mine Harada
• Role of the MHC2TA gene in autoimmune diseases (29 September, 2006)

  Alfonso Martínez, Marta Sánchez-Lopez, Jezabel Varadé, Ana Mas, M Carmen Martín, Virginia de las Heras, Rafael Arroyo, Juan Luis Mendoza, Manuel Díaz-Rubio, Benjamín Fernández-Gutiérrez, Emilio G de la Concha, Elena Urcelay
• Lumbar disc degeneration: association between osteophytes, end-plate sclerosis and disc space narrowing (6 October, 2006)

  Stephen R Pye, David M Reid, Mark Lunt, Judith E Adams, Alan J Silman, Terence W O’Neill
• Toll-like receptor 4 induced FcγR expression potentiates early onset of joint inflammation and cartilage destruction during immune complex arthritis: Toll-like receptor 4 largely regulates FcγR expression by interleukin 10 (26 October, 2006)

  P L E M van Lent, A B Blom, L Grevers, A Sloetjes, W B van den Berg
• Stable occurrence of knee and hip total joint replacement in Central Finland between 1986 and 2003: an indication of improved long-term outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis (26 October, 2006)

  Tuulikki Sokka, Hannu Kautiainen, Pekka Hannonen
• Oestrogens inhibit interleukin 1β-mediated nitric oxide synthase expression in articular chondrocytes through nuclear factor-κB impairment (26 October, 2006)

  Pascal Richette, Marie-France Dumontier, Khadija Tahiri, Magdalena Widerak, Antoine Torre, Mourad Benallaloua, François Rannou, Marie-Therese Corvol, Jean-François Savouret
• Tolerance and efficacy of rituximab and changes in serum B cell biomarkers in patients with systemic complications of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (1 September, 2006)

  Raphaèle Seror, Christelle Sordet, Loic Guillevin, Eric Hachulla, Charles Masson, Marc Ittah, Sophie Candon, Véronique Le Guern, Achille Aouba, Jean Sibilia, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Xavier Mariette
• Radiological damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis on sustained remission (25 August, 2006)

  G Cohen, L Gossec, M Dougados, A Cantagrel, P Goupille, JP Daures, N Rincheval, B Combe
• Prediction models for rheumatoid arthritis during diagnostic investigation: evaluation of combinations of rheumatoid factor, anti-citrullinated protein/peptide antibodies and the human leucocyte antigen-shared epitope (13 July, 2006)

  Bert Vander Cruyssen, Ilse E A Hoffman, Isabelle Peene, Ann Union, Herman Mielants, Lydie Meheus, Filip De Keyser
• Predictors for radiological damage in psoriatic arthritis: results from a single centre (17 August, 2006)

  Simon J Bond, Vernon T Farewell, Catherine T Schentag, Dafna D Gladman
• EULAR evidence based recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis: Report of a Task Force of the EULAR Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT) (17 October, 2006)

  W Zhang, M Doherty, B F Leeb, L Alekseeva, N K Arden, J W Bijlsma, F Dinçer, K Dziedzic, H J Häuselmann, G Herrero-Beaumont, P Kaklamanis, S Lohmander, E Maheu, E Martín-Mola, K Pavelka, L Punzi, S Reiter, J Sautner, J Smolen, G Verbruggen, I Zimmermann-Górska
• Increasing age at symptom onset is associated with worse radiological damage at presentation in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis (1 September, 2006)

  Marwan Bukhari, Mark Lunt, Anne Barton, Dianne Bunn, Alan Silman, Deborah Symmons
• Risk factors for early radiographic changes of tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (22 August, 2006)

  Steven A Mazzuca, Kenneth D Brandt, Barry P Katz, Yan Ding, Kathleen A Lane, Kenneth A Buckwalter
• Predicting the onset of knee pain: results from a 2-year prospective study of new workers (25 August, 2006)

  Gareth T Jones, Elaine F Harkness, Elizabeth S Nahit, John McBeth, Alan J Silman, Gary J Macfarlane