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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Disparities in rheumatoid arthritis disease activity according to gross domestic product in 25 countries in the QUEST–RA database (30 July, 2009)

  T Sokka, H Kautiainen, T Pincus, S Toloza, G da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro, J Lazovskis, M L Hetland, T Peets, K Immonen, J F Maillefert, A A Drosos, R Alten, C Pohl, B Rojkovich, B Bresnihan, P Minnock, M Cazzato, S Bombardieri, S Rexhepi, M Rexhepi, D Andersone, S Stropuviene, M Huisman, S Sierakowski, D Karateev, V Skakic, A Naranjo, E Baecklund, D Henrohn, F Gogus, H Badsha, A Mofti, P Taylor, C McClinton, Y Yazici
• Extended report: Association of bone scintigraphic abnormalities with knee malalignment and pain (3 November, 2008)

  V B Kraus, G McDaniel, T W Worrell, S Feng, T P Vail, G Varju, R E Coleman
• Extended report: Elaboration of the preliminary Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score: a EULAR initiative (3 December, 2008)

  L Gossec, M Dougados, N Rincheval, A Balanescu, D T Boumpas, S Canadelo, L Carmona, J-P Daurès, M de Wit, B A C Dijkmans, M Englbrecht, Z Gunendi, T Heiberg, J R Kirwan, E M Mola, M Matucci-Cerinic, K Otsa, G Schett, T Sokka, G A Wells, G J Aanerud, A Celano, A Dudkin, C Hernandez, K Koutsogianni, F N Akca, A-M Petre, P Richards, M Scholte-Voshaar, G Von Krause, T K Kvien
• Extended report: Adaptation and cross-cultural validation of the rheumatoid arthritis work instability scale (RA–WIS) (15 December, 2008)

  G Gilworth, P Emery, L Gossec, T P M Vliet Vlieland, F C Breedveld, A J Hueber, G Schett, A Tennant
• Extended report: Subtle changes in individual joints result in both positive and negative change scores in a patient: results from a clinical trial in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (24 November, 2008)

  C Lukas, R Landewé, S Fatenejad, D van der Heijde
• Extended report: Hand osteoarthritis in older women is associated with carotid and coronary atherosclerosis: the AGES Reykjavik study (25 November, 2008)

  H Jonsson, G P Helgadottir, T Aspelund, G Eiriksdottir, S Sigurdsson, T Ingvarsson, T B Harris, L Launer, V Gudnason
• Extended report: Comparison of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index and a modified version of the index in assessing disease activity in patients with ankylosing spondylitis without peripheral manifestations (24 November, 2008)

  I H Song, M Rudwaleit, J Listing, J Sieper
• Extended report: The 6-month safety and efficacy of abatacept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who underwent a washout after anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy or were directly switched to abatacept: the ARRIVE trial (15 December, 2008)

  M Schiff, C Pritchard, J E Huffstutter, V Rodriguez-Valverde, P Durez, X Zhou, T Li, K Bahrt, S Kelly, M Le Bars, M C Genovese
• Extended report: Efficacy of prednisone 1–4 mg/day in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled withdrawal clinical trial (15 December, 2008)

  T Pincus, C J Swearingen, G Luta, T Sokka
• Extended report: Baseline and 1-year magnetic resonance imaging of the sacroiliac joint and lumbar spine in very early inflammatory back pain. Relationship between symptoms, HLA-B27 and disease extent and persistence (19 November, 2008)

  H Marzo-Ortega, D McGonagle, P O’Connor, E M A Hensor, A N Bennett, M J Green, P Emery
• Extended report: Seasonality and trends in the incidence and prevalence of gout in England and Wales 1994–2007 (24 November, 2008)

  A J Elliot, K W Cross, D M Fleming
• Extended report: Progressive increase in body mass index is not associated with a progressive increase in joint space narrowing in obese women with osteoarthritis of the knee (5 December, 2008)

  M-P Hellio Le Graverand, K Brandt, S A Mazzuca, D Raunig, E Vignon
• Extended report: Formation of antibodies against infliximab and adalimumab strongly correlates with functional drug levels and clinical responses in rheumatoid arthritis (19 November, 2008)

  T R D J Radstake, M Svenson, A M Eijsbouts, F H J van den Hoogen, C Enevold, P L C M van Riel, K Bendtzen