Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• IL-6 receptor inhibition with tocilizumab improves treatment outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis refractory to anti-tumour necrosis factor biologicals: results from a 24-week multicentre randomised placebo-controlled trial (14 July, 2008)

  P Emery, E Keystone, H P Tony, A Cantagrel, R van Vollenhoven, A Sanchez, E Alecock, J Lee, J Kremer
• Knee alignment differences between Chinese and Caucasian subjects without osteoarthritis (29 January, 2008)

  W F Harvey, J Niu, Y Zhang, P I McCree, D T Felson, M Nevitt, L Xu, P Aliabadi, D J Hunter
• Cigarette smoking, disease severity and autoantibody expression in African Americans with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis (15 January, 2008)

  T R Mikuls, L B Hughes, A O Westfall, V M Holers, L Parrish, D van der Heijde, M van Everdingen, G S Alarcón, D L Conn, B Jonas, L F Callahan, E A Smith, G Gilkeson, G Howard, L W Moreland, S L Bridges
• The diagnostic value of scintigraphy in assessing sacroiliitis in ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic literature research (29 January, 2008)

  I H Song, J Carrasco-Fernández, M Rudwaleit, J Sieper
• Reduction of fatigue in Sjögren syndrome with rituximab: results of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study (14 February, 2008)

  S Dass, S J Bowman, E M Vital, K Ikeda, C T Pease, J Hamburger, A Richards, S Rauz, P Emery
• Premorbid knee osteoarthritis is not characterised by diffuse thinness: the Framingham Osteoarthritis Study (24 January, 2008)

  D J Hunter, J B Niu, Y Zhang, M LaValley, C E McLennan, M Hudelmaier, F Eckstein, D T Felson
• Lymphotoxin 252A>G polymorphism is common and associates with myocardial infarction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (29 January, 2008)

  V F Panoulas, S N Nikas, J P Smith, K M J Douglas, P Nightingale, H J Milionis, G J Treharne, T E Toms, M D Kita, G D Kitas
• Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis (30 January, 2008)

  K P Liao, K L Batra, L Chibnik, P H Schur, K H Costenbader
• Head-to-head comparison of the Lyon Schuss and fixed flexion radiographic techniques. Long-term reproducibility in normal knees and sensitivity to change in osteoarthritic knees (7 February, 2008)

  M-P Hellio Le Graverand, E P Vignon, K D Brandt, S A Mazzuca, M Piperno, R Buck, H C Charles, D J Hunter, C G Jackson, V Byers Kraus, T M Link, T J Schnitzer, A Vaz, B Wyman
• Anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy in patients with refractory Takayasu arteritis: long-term follow-up (3 August, 2008)

  E S Molloy, C A Langford, T M Clark, C E Gota, G S Hoffman
• Vitamin K in hand osteoarthritis: results from a randomised clinical trial (14 July, 2008)

  T Neogi, D T Felson, R Sarno, S L Booth
• Tight control and intensified COBRA combination treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis: 90% remission in a pilot trial (14 July, 2008)

  L H D van Tuyl, W F Lems, A E Voskuyl, P J S M Kerstens, P Garnero, B A C Dijkmans, M Boers
• The TRAF1/C5 region is a risk factor for polyarthritis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

  (1 July, 2008)

  H M Albers, F A S Kurreeman, J J Houwing-Duistermaat, D M C Brinkman, S S M Kamphuis, H J Girschick, C Wouters, M A J Van Rossum, W Verduijn, R E M Toes, T W J Huizinga, M W Schilham, R ten Cate