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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Rheumatoid arthritis versus diabetes as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease: a cross-sectional study, the CARRÉ Investigation (12 August, 2008) Free

  V P van Halm, M J L Peters, A E Voskuyl, M Boers, W F Lems, M Visser, C D A Stehouwer, A M W Spijkerman, J M Dekker, G Nijpels, R J Heine, L M Bouter, Y M Smulders, B A C Dijkmans, M T Nurmohamed
• Extended report: Prevalence of radiographic lumbar spondylosis and its association with low back pain in elderly subjects of population-based cohorts: the ROAD study (21 August, 2008)

  S Muraki, H Oka, T Akune, A Mabuchi, Y En-yo, M Yoshida, A Saika, T Suzuki, H Yoshida, H Ishibashi, S Yamamoto, K Nakamura, H Kawaguchi, N Yoshimura
• Extended report: Comparison of clinical and radiographic severity of juvenile-onset versus adult-onset ankylosing spondylitis (9 September, 2008)

  F D O’Shea, E Boyle, R Riarh, S M Tse, R M Laxer, R D Inman
• Extended report: CHECK (Cohort Hip and Cohort Knee): similarities and differences with the Osteoarthritis Initiative (4 September, 2008)

  J Wesseling, J Dekker, W B van den Berg, S M A Bierma-Zeinstra, M Boers, H A Cats, P Deckers, K J Gorter, P H T G Heuts, W K H A Hilberdink, M Kloppenburg, R G H H Nelissen, F G J Oosterveld, J C M Oostveen, L D Roorda, M A Viergever, S ten Wolde, F P J G Lafeber, J W J Bijlsma
• Extended report: A randomised controlled trial of spinal manipulative therapy in acute low back pain (5 September, 2008)

  P Jüni, M Battaglia, E Nüesch, G Hämmerle, P Eser, R van Beers, D Vils, J Bernhard, H-R Ziswiler, M Dähler, S Reichenbach, P M Villiger
• Extended report: Morbidity and mortality in the antiphospholipid syndrome during a 5-year period: a multicentre prospective study of 1000 patients (18 September, 2008)

  R Cervera, M A Khamashta, Y Shoenfeld, M T Camps, S Jacobsen, E Kiss, M M Zeher, A Tincani, I Kontopoulou-Griva, M Galeazzi, F Bellisai, P L Meroni, R H W M Derksen, P G de Groot, E Gromnica-Ihle, M Baleva, M Mosca, S Bombardieri, F Houssiau, J-C Gris, I Quéré, E Hachulla, C Vasconcelos, B Roch, A Fernández-Nebro, J-C Piette, G Espinosa, S Bucciarelli, C N Pisoni, M L Bertolaccini, M-C Boffa, G R V Hughes
• Extended report: An open-label pilot study of infliximab therapy in diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (9 September, 2008)

  C P Denton, M Engelhart, N Tvede, H Wilson, K Khan, X Shiwen, P E Carreira, F Diaz Gonzalez, C M Black, F H van den Hoogen
• Extended report: Lack of association between the interferon-α signature and longitudinal changes in disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (4 September, 2008)

  C Landolt-Marticorena, G Bonventi, A Lubovich, C Ferguson, T Unnithan, J Su, D D Gladman, M Urowitz, P R Fortin, J Wither
• Extended report: Is the blood B-cell subset profile diagnostic for Sjögren syndrome? (9 September, 2008)

  A Binard, L Le Pottier, V Devauchelle-Pensec, A Saraux, P Youinou, J-O Pers
• Extended report: Patient perspective of hand osteoarthritis in relation to concepts covered by instruments measuring functioning: a qualitative European multicentre study (2 September, 2008)

  T Stamm, F van der Giesen, C Thorstensson, E Steen, F Birrell, B Bauernfeind, N Marshall, B Prodinger, K Machold, J Smolen, M Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Change in MRI-detected subchondral bone marrow lesions is associated with cartilage loss: the MOST Study. A longitudinal multicentre study of knee osteoarthritis (1 October, 2008)

  F W Roemer, A Guermazi, M K Javaid, J A Lynch, J Niu, Y Zhang, D T Felson, C E Lewis, J Torner, M C Nevitt
• Concise report: MRI and clinical findings in patients with ankylosing spondylitis eligible for anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy after a short course of etoricoxib (24 October, 2008)

  S J Jarrett, F Sivera, L S Cawkwell, H Marzo-Ortega, D McGonagle, E Hensor, L Coates, P J O’Connor, A Fraser, P G Conaghan, P Emery
• Concise report: Influence of age on the outcome of antitumour necrosis factor alpha therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (17 November, 2008)

  B J Radovits, W Kievit, J Fransen, M A F J van de Laar, T L Jansen, P L C M van Riel, R F J M Laan
• Concise report: A descriptive and prognostic study of systemic sclerosis-associated myopathies (3 December, 2008)

  B Ranque, F-J Authier, V Le-Guern, C Pagnoux, A Berezne, Y Allanore, D Launay, E Hachulla, A Kahan, J Cabane, R Gherardi, L Guillevin, L Mouthon
• Concise report: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (26 November, 2008)

  S G O’Neill, S Woldman, F Bailliard, W Norman, J McEwan, D A Isenberg, A M Taylor, A Rahman
• Concise report: Validation of a prediction rule for development of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with early undifferentiated arthritis (17 November, 2008)

  B Kuriya, C K Cheng, H M Chen, V P Bykerk
• Extended report: Type I interferons might form the link between Toll-like receptor (TLR) 3/7 and TLR4-mediated synovial inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (2 September, 2008)

  M F Roelofs, M H Wenink, F Brentano, S Abdollahi-Roodsaz, B Oppers-Walgreen, P Barrera, P L C M van Riel, L A B Joosten, D Kyburz, W B van den Berg, T R D J Radstake
• Extended report: Evidence of epistasis between interleukin 1 and selenoprotein-S with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (26 August, 2008)

  I Marinou, K Walters, M C Dickson, M H Binks, D E Bax, A G Wilson
• Extended report: Homozygosity for DNASE2 single nucleotide polymorphisms in the 5′-regulatory region is associated with rheumatoid arthritis (23 September, 2008)

  M Rossol, M Pierer, S Arnold, G Keyßer, H Burkhardt, C Baerwald, U Wagner