Table of contents

Clinical & epidemiological research

• Extended report: Explaining the cardiovascular risk associated with rheumatoid arthritis: traditional risk factors versus markers of rheumatoid arthritis severity (5 May, 2010)

  Daniel H Solomon, Joel Kremer, Jeffrey R Curtis, Marc C Hochberg, George Reed, Peter Tsao, Michael E Farkouh, Soko Setoguchi, Jeffrey D Greenberg
• Extended report: Double-blind placebo-controlled trial of etanercept in the prevention of work disability in ankylosing spondylitis (28 May, 2010)

  Nick Barkham, Laura C Coates, Helen Keen, Elizabeth Hensor, Alexander Fraser, Anthony Redmond, Lorna Cawkwell, Paul Emery
• Extended report: Beneficial effect of 1-year etanercept treatment on the lipid profile in responding patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the ETRA study (24 May, 2010)

  A Jamnitski, I M Visman, M J L Peters, B A C Dijkmans, A E Voskuyl, M T Nurmohamed
• Extended report: Prospective long-term follow-up of patients with localised Wegener's granulomatosis: does it occur as persistent disease stage? (28 May, 2010)

  Julia U Holle, Wolfgang L Gross, Konstanze Holl-Ulrich, Petra Ambrosch, Bernhard Noelle, Marcus Both, Elena Csernok, Frank Moosig, Susanne Schinke, Eva Reinhold-Keller
• Extended report: Varus and valgus alignment and incident and progressive knee osteoarthritis (28 May, 2010)

  Leena Sharma, Jing Song, Dorothy Dunlop, David Felson, Cora E Lewis, Neil Segal, James Torner, T Derek V Cooke, Jean Hietpas, John Lynch, Michael Nevitt
• Extended report: NT-proBNP predicts mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from 10-year follow-up of the EURIDISS study (4 June, 2010)

  Sella Provan, Kristin Angel, Anne Grete Semb, Dan Atar, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: Nutritional status as marker for disease activity and severity predicting mortality in patients with systemic sclerosis (28 May, 2010)

  Lijana Krause, Mike O Becker, Claudia S Brueckner, Christina-Julia Bellinghausen, Corinna Becker, Udo Schneider, Thomas Haeupl, Katharina Hanke, Karin Hensel-Wiegel, Heidrun Ebert, Sabine Ziemer, Ulf-Müller Ladner, Matthias Pirlich, Gerd R Burmester, Gabriela Riemekasten
• Extended report:

  Association of the TNFAIP3 rs5029939 variant with systemic sclerosis in the European Caucasian population

  (28 May, 2010)

  P Dieudé, M Guedj, J Wipff, B Ruiz, G Riemekasten, M Matucci-Cerinic, I Melchers, E Hachulla, P Airo, E Diot, N Hunzelmann, J Cabane, L Mouthon, J L Cracowski, V Riccieri, J Distler, O Meyer, A Kahan, C Boileau, Y Allanore
• Extended report: Serum urate and its relationship with alcoholic beverage intake in men and women: findings from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) cohort (4 June, 2010)

  Angelo L Gaffo, Jeffrey M Roseman, David R Jacobs, Cora E Lewis, James M Shikany, Ted R Mikuls, Pauline E Jolly, Kenneth G Saag
• Extended report: Assessment of cartilage loss at the wrist in rheumatoid arthritis using a new MRI scoring system (14 May, 2010)

  Fiona McQueen, Andrew Clarke, Alex McHaffie, Quentin Reeves, Megan Williams, Elizabeth Robinson, Jing Dong, Arista Chand, Desiree Mulders, Nicola Dalbeth
• Extended report:

  Serum C reactive protein levels and genetic variation in the CRP gene are not associated with the prevalence, incidence or progression of osteoarthritis independent of body mass index

  (28 May, 2010)

  Hanneke J M Kerkhof, Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra, Martha C Castano-Betancourt, Moniek P de Maat, Albert Hofman, Huib A P Pols, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jacqueline C Witteman, André G Uitterlinden, Joyce B J van Meurs
• Extended report: Polymorphisms in the Hsp70 gene locus are genetically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (24 May, 2010)

  Barbara G Fürnrohr, Sven Wach, Jennifer A Kelly, Martin Haslbeck, Christian K Weber, Christian M Stach, Axel J Hueber, Daniela Graef, Bernd M Spriewald, Karin Manger, Martin Herrmann, Kenneth M Kaufman, Summer G Frank, Ellen Goodmon, Judith A James, Georg Schett, Thomas H Winkler, John B Harley, Reinhard E Voll
• Extended report: Lack of understanding in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis: the Illness Invalidation Inventory (3*I) (24 May, 2010)

  M B Kool, H van Middendorp, M A Lumley, Y Schenk, J W G Jacobs, J W J Bijlsma, R Geenen
• Extended report: Lipids, myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the Apolipoprotein-related Mortality RISk (AMORIS) Study (15 June, 2010)

  A G Semb, T K Kvien, A H Aastveit, I Jungner, T R Pedersen, G Walldius, I Holme
• Extended report: Predictors of treatment response and drug continuation in 842 patients with ankylosing spondylitis treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor: results from 8 years' surveillance in the Danish nationwide DANBIO registry (28 May, 2010)

  Bente Glintborg, Mikkel Østergaard, Niels Steen Krogh, Lene Dreyer, Hanne Lene Kristensen, Merete Lund Hetland
• Concise report:

  No evidence for a role of the catechol-O-methyltransferase pain sensitivity haplotypes in chronic widespread pain

  (22 June, 2010)

  Barbara I Nicholl, Kate L Holliday, Gary J Macfarlane, Wendy Thomson, Kelly A Davies, Terence W O'Neill, Gyorgy Bartfai, Steven Boonen, Felipe Casanueva, Joseph D Finn, Gianni Forti, Aleksander Giwercman, Ilpo T Huhtaniemi, Krzysztof Kula, Margus Punab, Alan J Silman, Dirk Vanderschueren, Frederick C W Wu, John McBeth, European Male Ageing Study Group
• Concise report: CCR5 blockade in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial (6 August, 2010)

  Arno W R van Kuijk, Clarissa E Vergunst, Danielle M Gerlag, Barry Bresnihan, Juan J Gomez-Reino, Regine Rouzier, Patrick C Verschueren, Christiaan van de Leij, Mario Maas, Maarten C Kraan, Paul P Tak