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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Kinetics of viral loads and risk of hepatitis B virus reactivation in hepatitis B core antibody-positive rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha therapy (29 June, 2011) Free

  Joung-Liang Lan, Yi-Ming Chen, Tsu-Yi Hsieh, Yi-Hsing Chen, Chia-Wei Hsieh, Der-Yuan Chen, Sheng-Shun Yang
• Extended report: Autoantibodies as biomarkers for the prediction of neuropsychiatric events in systemic lupus erythematosus (5 September, 2011)

  J G Hanly, M B Urowitz, L Su, S-C Bae, C Gordon, A Clarke, S Bernatsky, A Vasudevan, D Isenberg, A Rahman, D J Wallace, P R Fortin, D Gladman, J Romero-Dirz, J Sanchez-Guerrero, M A Dooley, I Bruce, K Steinsson, M Khamashta, S Manzi, R Ramsey-Goldman, G Sturfelt, O Nived, R van Vollenhoven, M Ramos-Casals, C Aranow, M Mackay, K Kalunian, G S Alarcón, B J Fessler, G Ruiz-Irastorza, M Petri, S Lim, D Kamen, C Peschken, V Farewell, K Thompson, C Theriault, J T Merrill
• Extended report: Risk factors for medial meniscal pathology on knee MRI in older US adults: a multicentre prospective cohort study (6 June, 2011)

  Martin Englund, David T Felson, Ali Guermazi, Frank W Roemer, Ke Wang, Michel D Crema, John A Lynch, Leena Sharma, Neil A Segal, Cora E Lewis, Michael C Nevitt
• Extended report: Lumbar disc degeneration and genetic factors are the main risk factors for low back pain in women: the UK Twin Spine Study (6 June, 2011)

  Gregory Livshits, Maria Popham, Ida Malkin, Philip N Sambrook, Alex J MacGregor, Timothy Spector, Frances M K Williams
• Extended report: Do non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have a significant effect on detection and grading of ultrasound-detected synovitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? Results from a randomised study (28 July, 2011)

  Ahmed S Zayat, Philip G Conaghan, Mohammad Sharif, Jane E Freeston, Claire Wenham, Elizabeth M A Hensor, Paul Emery, Richard J Wakefield
• Extended report: Phenotypic associations of genetic susceptibility loci in systemic lupus erythematosus (30 June, 2011)

  Elena Sanchez, Ajay Nadig, Bruce C Richardson, Barry I Freedman, Kenneth M Kaufman, Jennifer A Kelly, Timothy B Niewold, Diane L Kamen, Gary S Gilkeson, Julie T Ziegler, Carl D Langefeld, Graciela S Alarcón, Jeffrey C Edberg, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Michelle Petri, Elizabeth E Brown, Robert P Kimberly, John D Reveille, Luis M Vilá, Joan T Merrill, Juan-Manuel Anaya, Judith A James, Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Javier Martin, So-Yeon Park, So-Young Bang, Sang-Cheol Bae, Kathy L Moser, Timothy J Vyse, Lindsey A Criswell, Patrick M Gaffney, Betty P Tsao, Chaim O Jacob, John B Harley, Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme, Amr H Sawalha
• Extended report: A stratified model for health outcomes in ankylosing spondylitis (25 July, 2011)

  Pedro Machado, Robert Landewé, Jürgen Braun, Kay-Geert A Hermann, Xenofon Baraliakos, Daniel Baker, Ben Hsu, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Measuring participation in people with spondyloarthritis using the social role participation questionnaire (25 July, 2011)

  Aileen M Davis, Marvilyn P Palaganas, Elizabeth M Badley, Dafna D Gladman, Robert D Inman, Monique A Gignac
• Extended report: Higher dynamic medial knee load predicts greater cartilage loss over 12 months in medial knee osteoarthritis (7 July, 2011)

  Kim L Bennell, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Yuanyuan Wang, Flavia Cicuttini, Miranda Davies-Tuck, Rana S Hinman
• Extended report: Psychosocial determinants of outcomes in knee replacement (25 July, 2011)

  Maria A Lopez-Olivo, Glenn C Landon, Sherwin J Siff, David Edelstein, Chong Pak, Michael A Kallen, Melinda Stanley, Hong Zhang, Kausha C Robinson, Maria E Suarez-Almazor
• Extended report: Identifying patients with axial spondyloarthritis in primary care: how useful are items indicative of inflammatory back pain? (5 August, 2011)

  A Braun, E Saracbasi, J Grifka, J Schnitker, J Braun
• Extended report: Clinical prediction of 5-year survival in systemic sclerosis: validation of a simple prognostic model in EUSTAR centres (21 July, 2011)

  J Fransen, D Popa-Diaconu, R Hesselstrand, P Carreira, G Valentini, L Beretta, P Airo, M Inanc, S Ullman, A Balbir-Gurman, S Sierakowski, Y Allanore, L Czirjak, V Riccieri, R Giacomelli, A Gabrielli, G Riemekasten, M Matucci-Cerinic, D Farge, N Hunzelmann, F H J Van den Hoogen, M C Vonk
• Extended report:

  Association of variants in MMEL1 and CTLA4 with rheumatoid arthritis in the Han Chinese population

  (21 July, 2011)

  Patrick Danoy, Meng Wei, Hadler Johanna, Lei Jiang, Dongyi He, Linyun Sun, Xiaofeng Zeng, Peter M Visscher, Matthew A Brown, Huji Xu
• Extended report: Weight loss as treatment for knee osteoarthritis symptoms in obese patients: 1-year results from a randomised controlled trial (5 August, 2011)

  Henning Bliddal, Anthony R Leeds, Lise Stigsgaard, Arne Astrup, Robin Christensen
• Extended report: Presence of MRI-detected joint effusion and synovitis increases the risk of cartilage loss in knees without osteoarthritis at 30-month follow-up: the MOST study (25 July, 2011)

  Frank W Roemer, Ali Guermazi, David T Felson, Jingbo Niu, Michael C Nevitt, Michel D Crema, John A Lynch, Cora E Lewis, James Torner, Yuqing Zhang
• Extended report: Risk of septic arthritis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the effect of anti-TNF therapy: results from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (21 July, 2011)

  J B Galloway, K L Hyrich, L K Mercer, W G Dixon, A P Ustianowski, M Helbert, K D Watson, M Lunt, D P M Symmons
• Extended report: Association with joint damage and physical functioning of nine composite indices and the 2011 ACR/EULAR remission criteria in rheumatoid arthritis (3 August, 2011)

  N B Klarenbeek, R Koevoets, D M F M van der Heijde, A H Gerards, S ten Wolde, P J S M Kerstens, T W J Huizinga, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart
• Concise report: Delays in assessment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: variations across Europe (7 August, 2011)

  Karim Raza, Rebecca Stack, Kanta Kumar, Andrew Filer, Jacqueline Detert, Hans Bastian, Gerd R Burmester, Prodromos Sidiropoulos, Eleni Kteniadaki, Argyro Repa, Tore Saxne, Carl Turesson, Herman Mann, Jiri Vencovsky, Anca Catrina, Aikaterini Chatzidionysiou, Aase Hensvold, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Alexa Binder, Klaus Machold, Brygida Kwiakowska, Adrian Ciurea, Giorgio Tamborrini, Diego Kyburz, Christopher D Buckley
• Concise report: Long-term safety, efficacy and inhibition of radiographic progression with abatacept treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate: 3-year results from the AIM trial (5 September, 2011)

  Joel M Kremer, Anthony S Russell, Paul Emery, Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Jacek Szechinski, Rene Westhovens, Tracy Li, Xianhuang Zhou, Jean-Claude Becker, Richard Aranda, Charles Peterfy, Harry K Genant
• Concise report: Venous thrombotic events are not increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti‑TNF therapy: results from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (22 July, 2011)

  Rebecca Davies, James B Galloway, Kath D Watson, Mark Lunt, Deborah P M Symmons, Kimme L Hyrich
• Concise report: Osteophytes and joint space narrowing are independently associated with pain in finger joints in hand osteoarthritis (8 July, 2011)

  Marion C Kortekaas, Wing-Yee Kwok, Monique Reijnierse, Tom W J Huizinga, Margreet Kloppenburg
• Concise report: Effectiveness of intra-articular hyaluronan (Synvisc, hylan G-F 20) for the treatment of first metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis: a randomised placebo-controlled trial (25 July, 2011)

  Shannon E Munteanu, Gerard V Zammit, Hylton B Menz, Karl B Landorf, Christopher J Handley, Ayman Elzarka, Jason DeLuca