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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Cortical hand bone loss after 1 year in early rheumatoid arthritis predicts radiographic hand joint damage at 5-year and 10-year follow-up (13 March, 2008)

  M Hoff, G Haugeberg, S Ødegård, S Syversen, R Landewé, D van der Heijde, T K Kvien
• Changes in hand and generalised bone mineral density in patients with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis (28 March, 2008) Free

  M Güler-Yüksel, C F Allaart, Y P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, J K de Vries-Bouwstra, J H L M van Groenendael, C Mallée, M H W de Bois, F C Breedveld, B A C Dijkmans, W F Lems
• The B lymphocyte stimulator receptor–ligand system in hepatitis C virus-induced B cell clonal disorders (23 April, 2008)

  D-A Landau, M Rosenzwajg, D Saadoun, D Klatzmann, P Cacoub
• Alcohol consumption is not protective for systemic lupus erythematosus (13 April, 2008)

  J Wang, A B Kay, J Fletcher, M K Formica, T E McAlindon
• Change in cartilage morphometry: a sample of the progression cohort of the Osteoarthritis Initiative (13 April, 2008)

  D J Hunter, J Niu, Y Zhang, S Totterman, J Tamez, C Dabrowski, R Davies, M-P Hellio Le Graverand, M Luchi, Y Tymofyeyev, C R Beals, for the OAI Investigators
• Reliability of ultrasonography in detecting shoulder disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (4 April, 2008)

  G A W Bruyn, E Naredo, I Möller, C Moragues, J Garrido, G H de Bock, M-A d’Agostino, E Filippucci, A Iagnocco, M Backhaus, W A A Swen, P Balint, C Pineda, S Milutinovic, D Kane, G Kaeley, F J Narvaez, R J Wakefield, J A Narvaez, J de Augustin, W A Schmidt
• Microvascular function is impaired in ankylosing spondylitis and improves after tumour necrosis factor α blockade (4 April, 2008)

  I C van Eijk, M J L Peters, E H Serné, I E van der Horst-Bruinsma, B A C Dijkmans, Y M Smulders, M T Nurmohamed
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use does not appear to be associated with increased cardiovascular mortality in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis: results from a primary care based inception cohort of patients (13 April, 2008)

  N J Goodson, A M Brookhart, D P M Symmons, A J Silman, D H Solomon
• Bone mineral density in rheumatoid arthritis patients 1 year after adalimumab therapy: arrest of bone loss (13 April, 2008)

  C A Wijbrandts, R Klaasen, M G W Dijkgraaf, D M Gerlag, B L F van Eck-Smit, P P Tak
• A single nucleotide polymorphism in the IRF5 promoter region is associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis in the Japanese population

  (13 April, 2008)

  K Shimane, Y Kochi, R Yamada, Y Okada, A Suzuki, A Miyatake, M Kubo, Y Nakamura, K Yamamoto
• MRI bone oedema is the strongest predictor of subsequent radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis. Results from a 2-year randomised controlled trial (CIMESTRA) (3 April, 2008)

  M L Hetland, B Ejbjerg, K Hørslev-Petersen, S Jacobsen, A Vestergaard, A G Jurik, K Stengaard-Pedersen, P Junker, T Lottenburger, I Hansen, L S Andersen, U Tarp, H Skjødt, J K Pedersen, O Majgaard, A J Svendsen, T Ellingsen, H Lindegaard, A F Christensen, J Vallø, T Torfing, E Narvestad, H S Thomsen, M Østergaard, and the CIMESTRA study group
• Prospective evaluation of risk of vertebral fractures using quantitative ultrasound measurements and bone mineral density in a population-based sample of postmenopausal women: results of the Basel Osteoporosis Study (16 April, 2008)

  R Hollaender, F Hartl, M-A Krieg, A Tyndall, C Geuckel, C Buitrago-Tellez, M Manghani, M Kraenzlin, R Theiler, D Hans
• Risk factors for a first thrombotic event in antiphospholipid antibody carriers. A multicentre, retrospective follow-up study (23 September, 2008)

  A Ruffatti, T Del Ross, M Ciprian, M Nuzzo, M Rampudda, M T Bertero, R Bergia, P Caramaschi, D Biasi, F Capsoni, L Montaguti, R Ruffini, A Brucato, U Picillo, V Fanelli, V Riccieri, A Piccoli, G Valesini, A Doria, P L Meroni, A Tincani
• Early occupational therapy programme increases hand grip strength at 3 months: results from a randomised, blind, controlled study in early rheumatoid arthritis (17 November, 2008)

  R Mathieux, H Marotte, L Battistini, A Sarrazin, M Berthier, P Miossec
• Pulmonary fibrosis associated with ANCA-positive vasculitides. Retrospective study of 12 cases and review of the literature (28 October, 2008)

  B Hervier, C Pagnoux, C Agard, J Haroche, Z Amoura, L Guillevin, M A Hamidou, for the French Vasculitis Study Group
• Association between a stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1/CXCL12) gene polymorphism and microvascular disease in systemic sclerosis

  (17 October, 2008)

  M Manetti, V Liakouli, C Fatini, P Cipriani, C Bonino, S Vettori, S Guiducci, C Montecucco, R Abbate, G Valentini, M Matucci-Cerinic, R Giacomelli, L Ibba-Manneschi
• Juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: different clinical and serological pattern than adult-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (17 October, 2008)

  I E A Hoffman, B R Lauwerys, F De Keyser, T W J Huizinga, D Isenberg, L Cebecauer, J Dehoorne, R Joos, G Hendrickx, F Houssiau, D Elewaut
• Allele *2 of the HS1,2A enhancer of the Ig regulatory region associates with rheumatoid arthritis (24 October, 2008)

  B Tolusso, D Frezza, C Mattioli, A L Fedele, S Bosello, F Faustini, G Peluso, V Giambra, D Pietrapertosa, A Morelli, E Gremese, M De Santis, G F Ferraccioli