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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and β-cell function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with or without low-to-medium dose glucocorticoids (10 September, 2011) Free

  J N Hoes, M C van der Goes, D H van Raalte, N J van der Zijl, D den Uyl, W F Lems, F P G J Lafeber, J W G Jacobs, P M J Welsing, M Diamant, J W J Bijlsma
• Extended report: Malignancies associated with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors in registries and prospective observational studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis (1 September, 2011)

  Xavier Mariette, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Karel Pavelka, Peter Taylor, Ronald van Vollenhoven, Rebecca Heatley, Claire Walsh, Richard Lawson, Alan Reynolds, Paul Emery
• Extended report: Safety profile and clinical activity of sifalimumab, a fully human anti-interferon α monoclonal antibody, in systemic lupus erythematosus: a phase I, multicentre, double-blind randomised study (27 July, 2011)

  Joan T Merrill, Daniel J Wallace, Michelle Petri, Kyriakos A Kirou, Yihong Yao, Wendy I White, Gabriel Robbie, Robert Levin, Seth M Berney, Vishala Chindalore, Nancy Olsen, Laura Richman, Chenxiong Le, Bahija Jallal, Barbara White
• Extended report: Treatment benefit or survival of the fittest: what drives the time-dependent decrease in serious infection rates under TNF inhibition and what does this imply for the individual patient? (25 July, 2011)

  A Strangfeld, M Eveslage, M Schneider, H J Bergerhausen, T Klopsch, A Zink, J Listing
• Extended report: Increased mortality in ankylosing spondylitis is related to disease activity (21 July, 2011)

  Gunnstein Bakland, Jan Tore Gran, Johannes C Nossent
• Extended report: Correlation of serum level of high mobility group box 1 with the burden of granulomatous inflammation in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) (16 July, 2011)

  F O Henes, Y Chen, TA Bley, M Fabel, M Both, K Herrmann, E Csernok, WL Gross, F Moosig
• Extended report: HLA-B27 positive patients differ from HLA-B27 negative patients in clinical presentation and imaging: results from the DESIR cohort of patients with recent onset axial spondyloarthritis (28 July, 2011)

  Ho Yin Chung, Pedro Machado, Désirée van der Heijde, Maria-Antonietta D'Agostino, Maxime Dougados
• Extended report: The impact of knee and hip chondrocalcinosis on disability in older people: the ProVA Study from northeastern Italy (6 August, 2011)

  Estella Musacchio, Roberta Ramonda, Egle Perissinotto, Leonardo Sartori, Rosemarie Hirsch, Leonardo Punzi, Sabina Zambon, Maria Chiara Corti, Giovannella Baggio, Enzo Manzato, Andrea Doria, Gaetano Crepaldi
• Extended report: Incidence, progression and sequence of development of radiographic knee osteoarthritis in a symptomatic population (2 August, 2011)

  R Duncan, G Peat, E Thomas, E M Hay, P Croft
• Extended report: Sustained disease remission and inhibition of radiographic progression in methotrexate-naive patients with rheumatoid arthritis and poor prognostic factors treated with abatacept: 2-year outcomes (6 August, 2011)

  J Bathon, M Robles, A C Ximenes, S Nayiager, J Wollenhaupt, P Durez, J Gomez-Reino, W Grassi, B Haraoui, W Shergy, S-H Park, H Genant, C Peterfy, J-C Becker, A Covucci, D Moniz Reed, R Helfrick, R Westhovens
• Extended report: A 40-month multicentre, randomised placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy and carry-over effect of repeated intra-articular injections of hyaluronic acid in knee osteoarthritis: the AMELIA project (17 August, 2011)

  F Navarro-Sarabia, P Coronel, E Collantes, F J Navarro, A Rodriguez de la Serna, A Naranjo, M Gimeno, G Herrero-Beaumont
• Extended report: Lack of activation of renal functional reserve predicts the risk of significant renal involvement in systemic sclerosis (21 July, 2011)

  Riccardo Livi, Serena Guiducci, Federico Perfetto, Gabriele Ciuti, Elisa Grifoni, Letizia Conforti, Felice Galluccio, Alberto Moggi Pignone, Marco Matucci Cerinic
• Extended report: Assessment by MRI of inflammation and damage in rheumatoid arthritis patients with methotrexate inadequate response receiving golimumab: results of the GO-FORWARD trial (21 July, 2011)

  Philip G Conaghan, Paul Emery, Mikkel Østergaard, Edward C Keystone, Mark C Genovese, Elizabeth C Hsia, Weichun Xu, Mahboob U Rahman
• Extended report: Rheumatoid arthritis near remission: clinical rather than laboratory inflammation is associated with radiographic progression (28 July, 2011)

  Daniel Aletaha, Farideh Alasti, Josef S Smolen
• Extended report: HLA-B27 and gender independently determine the likelihood of a positive MRI of the sacroiliac joints in patients with early inflammatory back pain: a 2-year MRI follow-up study (22 August, 2011)

  M van Onna, A G Jurik, D van der Heijde, A van Tubergen, L Heuft-Dorenbosch, R Landewé
• Concise report: Performance of the new 2011 ACR/EULAR remission criteria with tocilizumab using the phase IIIb study TAMARA as an example and their comparison with traditional remission criteria (29 August, 2011)

  Christof Iking-Konert, Martin Aringer, Jürgen Wollenhaupt, Thomas Mosch, Stefan Tuerk, Eugen Feist, Gerd R Burmester
• Concise report: Low bone mineral density is present in newly diagnosed paediatric systemic lupus erythematosus patients (13 September, 2011)

  Siok Hoon Lily Lim, Susanne M Benseler, Pascal N Tyrrell, Martin Charron, Elizabeth Harvey, Diane Hebert, Earl D Silverman
• Concise report: Examination of intra and interrater reliability with a new ultrasonographic reference atlas for scoring of synovitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (22 July, 2011)

  Hilde Berner Hammer, Pernille Bolton-King, Vivi Bakkeheim, Torill Helene Berg, Elisabeth Sundt, Anne Katrine Kongtorp, Espen A Haavardsholm
• Concise report: Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis to Target: multinational recommendations assessment questionnaire (29 July, 2011)

  Boulos Haraoui, Josef S Smolen, Daniel Aletaha, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Gerd Burmester, Catalin Codreanu, José Pereira Da Silva, Maarten de Wit, Maxime Dougados, Patrick Durez, Paul Emery, João Eurico Fonseca, Allan Gibofsky, Juan Gomez-Reino, Winfried Graninger, Vedat Hamuryudan, Maria José Jannaut Peῆa, Joachim Kalden, Tore K Kvien, Ieda Laurindo, Emilio Martin-Mola, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Pedro Santos Moreno, Karel Pavelka, Gyula Poor, Mario H Cardiel, Ewa Stanislawska-Biernat, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Désirée van der Heijde
• Concise report: Clinical response and tolerability to abatacept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis previously treated with infliximab or abatacept: open-label extension of the ATTEST Study (12 September, 2011)

  Michael Schiff, Mauro Keiserman, Christine Codding, Suthin Songcharoen, Alberto Berman, Sauithree Nayiager, Cristina Saldate, Richard Aranda, Jean-Claude Becker, Marleen Nys, Manuela le Bars, Diane Moniz Reed, Coralie Poncet, Maxime Dougados
• Concise report: Enthesis erosion in spondyloarthritis is not a persistent structural lesion (27 August, 2011)

  Eugenio de Miguel, Sandra Falcao, Concepción Castillo, Chamaida Plasencia, Miriam García, Jaime C Branco, Emilio Martín-Mola