Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Risk of elevated liver enzymes associated with TNF inhibitor utilisation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (10 August, 2010)

  Jeremy Sokolove, Vibeke Strand, Jeffrey D Greenberg, Jeffrey R Curtis, Arthur Kavanaugh, Joel M Kremer, Alina Anofrei, George Reed, Leonard Calabrese, Michele Hooper, Scott Baumgartner, Daniel E Furst
• Extended report: Ability of ultrasound imaging to detect erosions in a bone phantom model (10 August, 2010)

  Juhani M Koski, Eeva Alasaarela, Irma Soini, Kari Kemppainen, Ullamari Hakulinen, Jari O Heikkinen, Mikko S Laasanen, Simo Saarakkala
• Extended report: Baseline RANKL:OPG ratio and markers of bone and cartilage degradation predict annual radiological progression over 11 years in rheumatoid arthritis (10 August, 2010)

  Lilian H D van Tuyl, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Maarten Boers, Piet Geusens, Robert B M Landewé, Ben A C Dijkmans, Willem F Lems
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of different doses and retreatment of rituximab: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial in patients who are biological naïve with active rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate (Study Evaluating Rituximab's Efficacy in MTX iNadequate rEsponders (SERENE)) (10 August, 2010)

  P Emery, A Deodhar, W F Rigby, J D Isaacs, B Combe, A J Racewicz, K Latinis, C Abud-Mendoza, L J Szczepański, R A Roschmann, A Chen, G K Armstrong, W Douglass, H Tyrrell
• Extended report: Patients with RA in remission on TNF blockers: when and in whom can TNF blocker therapy be stopped? (10 August, 2010)

  Benazir Saleem, Helen Keen, Vincent Goeb, Rekha Parmar, Sharmin Nizam, Elizabeth M A Hensor, Sarah M Churchman, Mark Quinn, Richard Wakefield, Philip G Conaghan, Frederique Ponchel, Paul Emery
• Extended report: Four-year follow-up of surgical versus non-surgical therapy for chronic low back pain (10 August, 2010)

  Jens Ivar Brox, Øystein P Nygaard, Inger Holm, Anne Keller, Tor Ingebrigtsen, Olav Reikerås
• Extended report: Effect of rheumatoid factor on mortality and coronary heart disease (10 August, 2010)

  Gunnar Tomasson, Thor Aspelund, Thorbjorn Jonsson, Helgi Valdimarsson, David T Felson, Vilmundur Gudnason
• Extended report: Intranasal administration of recombinant human cartilage glycoprotein-39 as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis: a phase II, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, dose-finding trial (10 August, 2010)

  Robert B M Landewé, Jos G A Houbiers, Filip Van den Bosch, Joanna in't Hout, Patrick C P M Verschueren, Jan H Meijerink, Frank H J van den Hoogen, Bedrich A Masek, George A W Bruyn, Jacques M G W Wouters, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Jacob M van Laar, Johannes J W Bijlsma, Désirée M F M van der Heijde, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Leo B A van de Putte, André M M Miltenburg, Filip de Keyser
• Extended report: Excess risk of hospital admission for cardiovascular disease within the first 7 years from onset of inflammatory polyarthritis (10 August, 2010)

  Jarrod Franklin, Tracey M Farragher, Mark Lunt, Elizabeth M Camacho, Diane Bunn, Tarnya Marshall, Deborah P M Symmons
• Extended report: Increased prevalence of diastolic dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis (10 August, 2010)

  Kimberly P Liang, Elena Myasoedova, Cynthia S Crowson, John M Davis, Véronique L Roger, Barry L Karon, Daniel D Borgeson, Terry M Therneau, Richard J Rodeheffer, Sherine E Gabriel
• Extended report: Assessment of hand bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis by high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT (10 August, 2010)

  Anne Fouque-Aubert, Stéphanie Boutroy, Hubert Marotte, Nicolas Vilayphiou, Justine Bacchetta, Pierre Miossec, Pierre Dominique Delmas, Roland D Chapurlat
• Extended report: Acute effect of milk on serum urate concentrations: a randomised controlled crossover trial (10 August, 2010)

  Nicola Dalbeth, Sumwai Wong, Greg D Gamble, Anne Horne, Barbara Mason, Bregina Pool, Lynette Fairbanks, Fiona M McQueen, Jillian Cornish, Ian R Reid, Kate Palmano
• Concise report: Hormonal replacement therapy may reduce the risk for RA in women with early arthritis who carry HLA-DRB1 *01 and/or *04 alleles by protecting against the production of anti-CCP: results from the ESPOIR cohort (10 August, 2010)

  Carine Salliot, Claire Bombardier, Alain Saraux, Bernard Combe, Maxime Dougados
• Concise report: Lack of effect of TNFα blockade therapy on circulating adiponectin levels in patients with autoimmune disease: results from two independent prospective studies (10 August, 2010)

  Mike J L Peters, Pauline Watt, Lynne Cherry, Paul Welsh, Eric Henninger, Ben A C Dijkmans, Iain B McInnes, Michael T Nurmohamed, Naveed Sattar
• Concise report: Demyelinating events in rheumatoid arthritis after drug exposures (10 August, 2010)

  Sasha Bernatsky, Christel Renoux, Samy Suissa
• Concise report: Genetic variants in the prediction of rheumatoid arthritis (10 August, 2010)

  Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, René E M Toes, Tom W J Huizinga