Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Optimal dosage and route of administration of methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of the literature (25 November, 2008)

  K Visser, D van der Heijde
• Long-term safety of methotrexate monotherapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature research (5 December, 2008)

  C Salliot, D van der Heijde
• Efficacy and toxicity of methotrexate (MTX) monotherapy versus MTX combination therapy with non-biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (3 December, 2008)

  W Katchamart, J Trudeau, V Phumethum, C Bombardier
• Inhibition of radiographic progression with combination etanercept and methotrexate in patients with moderately active rheumatoid arthritis previously treated with monotherapy (21 August, 2008)

  D van der Heijde, G Burmester, J Melo-Gomes, C Codreanu, E Martin Mola, R Pedersen, D Robertson, D Chang, A Koenig, B Freundlich, for the Etanercept Study Investigators
• Dose-related patterns of glucocorticoid-induced side effects (6 August, 2008)

  D Huscher, K Thiele, E Gromnica-Ihle, G Hein, W Demary, R Dreher, A Zink, F Buttgereit
• Deoxyspergualin in relapsing and refractory Wegener’s granulomatosis (19 August, 2008)

  O Flossmann, B Baslund, A Bruchfeld, J W Cohen Tervaert, C Hall, P Heinzel, B Hellmich, R A Luqmani, K Nemoto, V Tesar, D R W Jayne
• Cardiovascular morbidity in psoriatic arthritis (12 August, 2008)

  D D Gladman, M Ang, L Su, B D M Tom, C T Schentag, V T Farewell
• The safety of anti-tumour necrosis factor treatments in rheumatoid arthritis: meta and exposure-adjusted pooled analyses of serious adverse events (27 August, 2008)

  J P Leombruno, T R Einarson, E C Keystone
• Efficacy, safety and patient-reported outcomes of combination etanercept and sulfasalazine versus etanercept alone in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a double-blind randomised 2-year study (15 September, 2008)

  B Combe, C Codreanu, U Fiocco, M Gaubitz, P P Geusens, T K Kvien, K Pavelka, P N Sambrook, J S Smolen, R Khandker, A Singh, J Wajdula, S Fatenejad, for the Etanercept European Investigators Network*
• Clinical and radiological efficacy of initial vs delayed treatment with infliximab plus methotrexate in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (17 October, 2008)

  S M van der Kooij, S le Cessie, Y P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, J K de Vries-Bouwstra, D van Zeben, P J S M Kerstens, J M W Hazes, D van Schaardenburg, F C Breedveld, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart
• Perinatal characteristics, early life infections and later risk of rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (28 October, 2008)

  C Carlens, L Jacobsson, L Brandt, S Cnattingius, O Stephansson, J Askling
• Reproductive history, hormonal factors and the incidence of hip and knee replacement for osteoarthritis in middle-aged women (28 October, 2008)

  B Liu, A Balkwill, C Cooper, A Roddam, A Brown, V Beral
• Adalimumab therapy reduces hand bone loss in early rheumatoid arthritis: explorative analyses from the PREMIER study (18 September, 2008)

  M Hoff, T K Kvien, J Kälvesten, A Elden, G Haugeberg
• Etanercept therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of malignancies: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (19 November, 2008)

  T Bongartz, F C Warren, D Mines, E L Matteson, K R Abrams, A J Sutton
• Sensitivity and specificity of the American College of Rheumatology 1987 criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis according to disease duration: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis (26 August, 2008)

  F Banal, M Dougados, C Combescure, L Gossec
• Estimating the prevalence of polymyositis and dermatomyositis from administrative data: age, sex and regional differences (19 August, 2008)

  S Bernatsky, L Joseph, C A Pineau, P Bélisle, J F Boivin, D Banerjee, A E Clarke
• Effects of infliximab therapy on biological markers of synovium activity and cartilage breakdown in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (19 August, 2008)

  H Marotte, E Gineyts, P Miossec, P D Delmas