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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Validity of enthesis ultrasound assessment in spondyloarthropathy (7 April, 2008)

  E de Miguel, T Cobo, S Muñoz-Fernández, E Naredo, J Usón, J C Acebes, J L Andréu, E Martín-Mola
• Effects of infliximab on markers of inflammation and bone turnover and associations with bone mineral density in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (21 May, 2008)

  S Visvanathan, D van der Heijde, A Deodhar, C Wagner, D G Baker, J Han, J Braun
• Reporting of patient-reported outcomes in recent trials in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature review (28 March, 2008)

  U Kalyoncu, M Dougados, J-P Daurès, L Gossec
• Nailfold capillary density is associated with the presence and severity of pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis (28 March, 2008)

  H M A Hofstee, A Vonk Noordegraaf, A E Voskuyl, B A C Dijkmans, P E Postmus, Y M Smulders, E H Serné
• The development of the L-QoL: a quality-of-life instrument specific to systemic lupus erythematosus (2 April, 2008)

  L C Doward, S P McKenna, D Whalley, A Tennant, B Griffiths, P Emery, D J Veale
• Quantifying anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide titres: clinical utility and association with tobacco exposure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (7 April, 2008)

  D M Lee, R Phillips, E M Hagan, L B Chibnik, K H Costenbader, P H Schur
• Rates of new-onset psoriasis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving anti-tumour necrosis factor α therapy: results from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (2 April, 2008)

  M J Harrison, W G Dixon, K D Watson, Y King, R Groves, K L Hyrich, D P M Symmons
• Rituximab inhibits structural joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with an inadequate response to tumour necrosis factor inhibitor therapies (3 April, 2008)

  E Keystone, P Emery, C G Peterfy, P P Tak, S Cohen, M C Genovese, M Dougados, G R Burmester, M Greenwald, T K Kvien, S Williams, D Hagerty, M W Cravets, T Shaw
• Alcohol consumption is associated with decreased risk of rheumatoid arthritis: results from two Scandinavian case–control studies (5 June, 2008)

  H Källberg, S Jacobsen, C Bengtsson, M Pedersen, L Padyukov, P Garred, M Frisch, E W Karlson, L Klareskog, L Alfredsson
• A novel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using a mixture of human native and recombinant proteinase-3 significantly improves the diagnostic potential for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (28 March, 2008)

  J Damoiseaux, C Dähnrich, A Rosemann, C Probst, L Komorowski, C A Stegeman, K Egerer, F Hiepe, P van Paassen, W Stöcker, W Schlumberger, J W Cohen Tervaert
• Are laboratory tests useful for monitoring the activity of lupus nephritis? A 6-year prospective study in a cohort of 228 patients with lupus nephritis (21 August, 2008)

  G Moroni, A Radice, G Giammarresi, S Quaglini, B Gallelli, A Leoni, M L Vecchi, P Messa, R A Sinico
• Risk and protective factors for thrombosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: results from a large, multi-ethnic cohort (9 September, 2008)

  R Kaiser, C M Cleveland, L A Criswell
• Associations of obesity with modifiable risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (3 August, 2008)

  A Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, G S Metsios, V F Panoulas, K M J Douglas, A M Nevill, A Z Jamurtas, M Kita, Y Koutedakis, G D Kitas
• Disease severity in children and adolescents with familial Mediterranean fever: a comparative study to explore environmental effects on a monogenic disease (18 September, 2008)

  S Ozen, N Aktay, E Lainka, A Duzova, A Bakkaloglu, T Kallinich
• Serum IgG antibodies to peptidylarginine deiminase 4 predict radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with tumour necrosis factor-α blocking agents (22 August, 2008)

  E H Halvorsen, E A Haavardsholm, S Pollmann, A Boonen, D van der Heijde, T K Kvien, Ø Molberg
• The interleukin 23 receptor gene does not confer risk to systemic sclerosis and is not associated with systemic sclerosis disease phenotype (19 August, 2008)

  B Rueda, J Broen, O Torres, C Simeon, N Ortego-Centeno, M M V A P Schrijvenaars, M C Vonk, V Fonollosa, F H J van den Hoogen, M J H Coenen, J Sanchez-Román, M A Aguirre-Zamorano, R García-Portales, A Pros, M T Camps, M A Gonzalez-Gay, J Martin, T R D J Radstake