Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Evidence for treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: results of a systematic literature search (17 March, 2010)

  Monika Schoels, Rachel Knevel, Daniel Aletaha, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Dimitrios T Boumpas, Gerd Burmester, Bernard Combe, Maurizio Cutolo, Maxime Dougados, Paul Emery, Desirée van der Heijde, Tom W J Huizinga, Joachim Kalden, Edward C Keystone, Tore K Kvien, Emilio Martin-Mola, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Maarten de Wit, Josef S Smolen
• Extended report: Clinical and ultrasonographic predictors of joint replacement for knee osteoarthritis: results from a large, 3-year, prospective EULAR study (10 May, 2009)

  P G Conaghan, M A D'Agostino, M Le Bars, G Baron, N Schmidely, R Wakefield, P Ravaud, W Grassi, E Martin-Mola, A So, M Backhaus, M Malaise, P Emery, M Dougados
• Extended report: Assessment of active spinal inflammatory changes in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: validation of whole body MRI against conventional MRI (4 May, 2009)

  Ulrich Weber, Juerg Hodler, Anne G Jurik, Christian W A Pfirrmann, Kaspar Rufibach, Rudolf O Kissling, Muhammad A Khan, Robert G W Lambert, Walter P Maksymowych
• Extended report: Rheumatoid arthritis, treatment with corticosteroids and risk of malignant lymphomas: results from a case–control study (12 May, 2009)

  Karin Hellgren, Anastasia Iliadou, Richard Rosenquist, Nils Feltelius, Carin Backlin, Gunilla Enblad, Johan Askling, Eva Baecklund
• Extended report: Spa therapy in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis: a large randomised multicentre trial (3 September, 2009)

  R Forestier, H Desfour, J-M Tessier, A Françon, A M Foote, C Genty, C Rolland, C-F Roques, J-L Bosson
• Extended report:

  PADI4 genotype is not associated with rheumatoid arthritis in a large UK Caucasian population

  (25 May, 2009)

  Marian L Burr, Haris Naseem, Anne Hinks, Steve Eyre, Laura J Gibbons, John Bowes, Anthony G Wilson, James Maxwell, Ann W Morgan, Paul Emery, Sophia Steer, Lynne Hocking, David M Reid, Paul Wordsworth, Pille Harrison, Wendy Thomson, Jane Worthington, BIRAC Consortium, YEAR Consortium, Anne Barton
• Extended report: Effectiveness and retention rates of methotrexate in psoriatic arthritis in comparison with methotrexate-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis (9 September, 2009)

  Elisabeth Lie, Désirée van der Heijde, Till Uhlig, Marte S Heiberg, Wenche Koldingsnes, Erik Rødevand, Cecilie Kaufmann, Knut Mikkelsen, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: Neutrophil-derived S100A12 as novel biomarker of inflammation in familial Mediterranean fever (17 September, 2009)

  Tilmann Kallinich, Helmut Wittkowski, Rolf Keitzer, Johannes Roth, Dirk Foell
• Extended report: Statin use in rheumatoid arthritis in relation to actual cardiovascular risk: evidence for substantial undertreatment of lipid-associated cardiovascular risk? (23 October, 2009)

  Tracey E Toms, Vasileios F Panoulas, Karen M J Douglas, Helen Griffiths, Naveed Sattar, Jaqueline P Smith, Deborah P M Symmons, Peter Nightingale, George S Metsios, George D Kitas
• Extended report: Early treatment with, and time receiving, first disease-modifying antirheumatic drug predicts long-term function in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (26 October, 2009)

  Tracey M Farragher, Mark Lunt, Bo Fu, Diane Bunn, Deborah P M Symmons
• Extended report:

  The TRAF1-C5 region on chromosome 9q33 is associated with multiple autoimmune diseases

  (10 May, 2009)

  Fina A S Kurreeman, George N Goulielmos, Behrooz Z Alizadeh, Blanca Rueda, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Elena Sanchez, Marianna Bevova, Timothy R Radstake, Madelon C Vonk, Emmanouil Galanakis, Norberto Ortego, Willem Verduyn, Maria I Zervou, Bart O Roep, Barbara Dema, Laura Espino, Elena Urcelay, Dimitrios T Boumpas, Leonard H van den Berg, Cisca Wijmenga, Bobby P C Koeleman, Tom W J Huizinga, Rene E M Toes, Javier Martin, the AADEA Group and SLEGEN Consortium
• Extended report:

  BANK1 functional variants are associated with susceptibility to diffuse systemic sclerosis in Caucasians

  (8 October, 2009)

  B Rueda, P Gourh, J Broen, S K Agarwal, C Simeon, N Ortego-Centeno, M C Vonk, M Coenen, G Riemekasten, N Hunzelmann, R Hesselstrand, F K Tan, J D Reveille, S Assassi, F J Garcia-Hernandez, P Carreira, M Camps, A Fernandez-Nebro, P Garcia de la Peña, T Nearney, D Hilda, M A Gónzalez-Gay, P Airo, L Beretta, R Scorza, T R D J Radstake, M D Mayes, F C Arnett, J Martin
• Extended report: Synovial tissue and serum biomarkers of disease activity, therapeutic response and radiographic progression: analysis of a proof-of-concept randomised clinical trial of cytokine blockade (20 May, 2009)

  Terence Rooney, Pascale Roux-Lombard, Douglas J Veale, Oliver FitzGerald, Jean-Michel Dayer, Barry Bresnihan
• Concise report: Increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide population-based study (29 April, 2009)

  Herng-Ching Lin, Shu-Fen Chen, Hsiu-Chen Lin, Yi-Hua Chen
• Concise report: Long-term efficacy and safety of infliximab plus methotrexate for the treatment of polyarticular-course juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: findings from an open-label treatment extension (17 March, 2010)

  Nicolino Ruperto, Daniel J Lovell, Ruben Cuttica, Patricia Woo, Silvia Meiorin, Carine Wouters, Earl D Silverman, Zsolt Balogh, Michael Henrickson, Joyce Davidson, Ivan Foeldvari, Lisa Imundo, Gabriele Simonini, Joachim Oppermann, Stephen Xu, Yaung-Kaung Shen, Sudha Visvanathan, Adedigbo Fasanmade, Alan Mendelsohn, Alberto Martini, Edward H Giannini
• Concise report:

  CARD8 p.C10X polymorphism is associated with inflammatory activity in early rheumatoid arthritis

  (13 May, 2009)

  Alf Kastbom, Martin Johansson, Deepti Verma, Peter Söderkvist, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist
• Concise report: Repair of joint erosions in rheumatoid arthritis: prevalence and patient characteristics in a large inception cohort (18 May, 2009)

  Michael P M van der Linden, Ramona Boja, Naomi B Klarenbeek, Tom W J Huizinga, Désirée M van der Heijde, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Concise report: Diagnostic value of anti-MCV antibodies in differentiating early inflammatory arthritis (17 May, 2009)

  L Damjanovska, M M Thabet, E W N Levarth, G Stoeken-Rijsbergen, E I van der Voort, R E M Toes, T W J Huizinga, A H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Concise report:

  Association of an ERAP1 ERAP2 haplotype with familial ankylosing spondylitis

  (10 May, 2009)

  Florence W L Tsui, Nigil Haroon, John D Reveille, Proton Rahman, Basil Chiu, Hing Wo Tsui, Robert D Inman
• Concise report: Occupational risk factors for Wegener's granulomatosis: a case–control study (12 April, 2009)

  Ann Knight, Sven Sandin, Johan Askling