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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: MRI in early rheumatoid arthritis: synovitis and bone marrow oedema are independent predictors of subsequent radiographic progression (31 August, 2010)

  Pernille Bøyesen, Espen A Haavardsholm, Mikkel Østergaard, Désirée van der Heijde, Sølve Sesseng, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: Diagnostic accuracy of enthesis ultrasound in the diagnosis of early spondyloarthritis (3 December, 2010)

  Eugenio de Miguel, Santiago Muñoz-Fernández, Concepción Castillo, Tatiana Cobo-Ibáñez, Emilio Martín-Mola
• Extended report: Development and preliminary validation of a paediatric-targeted MRI scoring system for the assessment of disease activity and damage in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (24 November, 2010)

  Clara Malattia, Maria Beatrice Damasio, Angela Pistorio, Maka Ioseliani, Iris Vilca, Maura Valle, Nicolino Ruperto, Stefania Viola, Antonella Buoncompagni, Gian Michele Magnano, Angelo Ravelli, Paolo Tomà, Alberto Martini
• Extended report: Definition of remission and relapse in polymyalgia rheumatica: data from a literature search compared with a Delphi-based expert consensus (19 November, 2010)

  Christian Dejaco, Christina Duftner, Marco A Cimmino, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Carlo Salvarani, Cynthia S Crowson, Hilal Maradit-Kremers, Andrew Hutchings, Eric L Matteson, Michael Schirmer, and members of the International Work Group for PMR and GCA
• Extended report:

  Analysis of the influence of PTPN22 gene polymorphisms in systemic sclerosis

  (3 December, 2010)

  LM Diaz-Gallo, P Gourh, J Broen, C Simeon, V Fonollosa, N Ortego-Centeno, S Agarwal, MC Vonk, M Coenen, G Riemekasten, N Hunzelmann, R Hesselstrand, FK Tan, JD Reveille, S Assassi, FJ García-Hernandez, P Carreira, MT Camps, A Fernandez-Nebro, P Garcia de la Peña, T Nearney, D Hilda, MA González-Gay, P Airo, L Beretta, R Scorza, A Herrick, J Worthington, A Pros, I Gómez-Gracia, L Trapiella, G Espinosa, I Castellvi, T Witte, F de Keyser, M Vanthuyne, MD Mayes, TRDJ Radstake, FC Arnett, J Martin, B Rueda
• Extended report: Study of the common genetic background for rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (10 November, 2010)

  Gisela Orozco, Steve Eyre, Anne Hinks, John Bowes, Ann W Morgan, Anthony G Wilson, Paul Wordsworth, Sophia Steer, Lynne Hocking, UKRAG consortium, Wendy Thomson, Jane Worthington, Anne Barton
• Extended report: Predictors of response to methotrexate in early DMARD naïve rheumatoid arthritis: results from the initial open-label phase of the SWEFOT trial (13 December, 2010)

  Saedis Saevarsdottir, Helena Wallin, Maria Seddighzadeh, Sofia Ernestam, Pierre Geborek, Ingemar F Petersson, Johan Bratt, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, for the SWEFOT Trial Investigators Group
• Extended report: Preliminary criteria for the very early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis: results of a Delphi Consensus Study from EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research Group (15 November, 2010)

  J Avouac, J Fransen, UA Walker, V Riccieri, V Smith, C Muller, I Miniati, IH Tarner, S Bellando Randone, M Cutolo, Y Allanore, O Distler, G Valentini, L Czirjak, U Müller-Ladner, DE Furst, A Tyndall, M Matucci-Cerinic, EUSTAR Group
• Extended report: Lipid paradox in rheumatoid arthritis: the impact of serum lipid measures and systemic inflammation on the risk of cardiovascular disease (7 January, 2011)

  Elena Myasoedova, Cynthia S Crowson, Hilal Maradit Kremers, Veronique L Roger, Patrick D Fitz-Gibbon, Terry M Therneau, Sherine E Gabriel
• Extended report: Long-term patient survival in ANCA-associated vasculitis (24 November, 2010)

  Oliver Flossmann, Annelies Berden, Kirsten de Groot, Chris Hagen, Lorraine Harper, Caroline Heijl, Peter Höglund, David Jayne, Raashid Luqmani, Alfred Mahr, Chetan Mukhtyar, Charles Pusey, Niels Rasmussen, Coen Stegeman, Michael Walsh, Kerstin Westman, for the European Vasculitis Study Group
• Extended report: Mutations in the autoinflammatory cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome gene: epidemiological study and lessons from eight years of genetic analysis in France (24 November, 2010)

  L Cuisset, I Jeru, B Dumont, A Fabre, E Cochet, J Le Bozec, M Delpech, S Amselem, I Touitou, and the French CAPS study group
• Extended report: Utility of ultrasound joint counts in the prediction of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with very early synovitis (29 November, 2010)

  Andrew Filer, Paola de Pablo, Gina Allen, Peter Nightingale, Alison Jordan, Paresh Jobanputra, Simon Bowman, Christopher D Buckley, Karim Raza
• Concise report: Smoking is a major preventable risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis: estimations of risks after various exposures to cigarette smoke (13 December, 2010)

  Henrik Källberg, Bo Ding, Leonid Padyukov, Camilla Bengtsson, Johan Rönnelid, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, EIRA Study Group
• Concise report:

  PADI4 polymorphism predisposes male smokers to rheumatoid arthritis

  (9 November, 2010)

  Yuta Kochi, Mohamed M Thabet, Akari Suzuki, Yukinori Okada, Nina A Daha, René E M Toes, Tom W J Huizinga, Keiko Myouzen, Michiaki Kubo, Ryo Yamada, Yusuke Nakamura, Kazuhiko Yamamoto
• Concise report: Generalisability of clinical registers used for drug safety and comparative effectiveness research: coverage of the Swedish Biologics Register (15 November, 2010)

  M Neovius, JF Simard, A Sundström, L Jacobsson, P Geborek, T Saxne, N Feltelius, L Klareskog, J Askling, for the ARTIS Study Group
• Concise report: Increased cartilage turnover and circulating autoantibodies in different subsets before the clinical onset of rheumatoid arthritis (15 November, 2010)

  Carl Turesson, Ulf Bergström, Lennart T H Jacobsson, Lennart Truedsson, Göran Berglund, Tore Saxne