Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Tumour necrosis factor antagonist use and associated risk reduction of cardiovascular events among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (24 November, 2010) Free

  Jeffrey D Greenberg, Joel M Kremer, Jeffrey R Curtis, Marc C Hochberg, George Reed, Peter Tsao, Michael E Farkouh, Adeel Nasir, Soko Setoguchi, Daniel H Solomon
• Extended report: Impact of concomitant use of DMARDs on the persistence with anti-TNF therapies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register (17 February, 2011)

  Moetaza M Soliman, Darren M Ashcroft, Kath D Watson, Mark Lunt, Deborah P M Symmons, Kimme L Hyrich
• Extended report: Effects of etanercept versus sulfasalazine in early axial spondyloarthritis on active inflammatory lesions as detected by whole-body MRI (ESTHER): a 48-week randomised controlled trial (3 March, 2011)

  I-H Song, KG Hermann, H Haibel, CE Althoff, J Listing, GR Burmester, A Krause, M Bohl-Bühler, B Freundlich, M Rudwaleit, J Sieper
• Extended report: Methods of tophus assessment in clinical trials of chronic gout: a systematic literature review and pictorial reference guide (7 January, 2011)

  Nicola Dalbeth, Cameron Schauer, Patricia MacDonald, Fernando Perez-Ruiz, H Ralph Schumacher, Steve Hamburger, Hyon K Choi, Fiona M McQueen, Anthony Doyle, William J Taylor
• Extended report: The paediatric wrist revisited: redefining MR findings in healthy children (20 December, 2010)

  Lil-Sofie Ording Müller, D Avenarius, B Damasio, O P Eldevik, C Malattia, K Lambot-Juhan, L Tanturri, C M Owens, K Rosendahl
• Extended report: Disease activity score-driven therapy versus routine care in patients with recent-onset active rheumatoid arthritis: data from the GUEPARD trial and ESPOIR cohort (17 January, 2011)

  M Soubrier, C Lukas, J Sibilia, B Fautrel, F Roux, L Gossec, S Patternotte, M Dougados
• Extended report: Drug-specific risk of non-tuberculosis opportunistic infections in patients receiving anti-TNF therapy reported to the 3-year prospective French RATIO registry (21 December, 2010)

  D Salmon-Ceron, F Tubach, O Lortholary, O Chosidow, S Bretagne, N Nicolas, E Cuillerier, B Fautrel, C Michelet, J Morel, X Puéchal, D Wendling, M Lemann, P Ravaud, X Mariette, for the RATIO group
• Extended report: Nationwide prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis and penetration of disease-modifying drugs in Sweden (13 December, 2010)

  Martin Neovius, Julia F Simard, Johan Askling, for the ARTIS study group
• Concise report: Predictive factors of hand radiographic lesions in systemic sclerosis: a prospective study (3 December, 2010)

  J Avouac, G Mogavero, H Guerini, J L Drapé, A Mathieu, A Kahan, Y Allanore
• Concise report: Effectiveness of initial treatment allocation based on expert opinion for prevention of rapid radiographic progression in daily practice of an early RA cohort (21 December, 2010)

  Anne Durnez, Geert Vanderschueren, Luc Lateur, René Westhovens, Patrick Verschueren
• Concise report:

  A replication study confirms the association of TNFSF4 (OX40L) polymorphisms with systemic sclerosis in a large European cohort

  (27 December, 2010)

  Lara Bossini-Castillo, Jasper C A Broen, Carmen P Simeon, Lorenzo Beretta, Madelon C Vonk, Norberto Ortego-Centeno, Gerard Espinosa, Patricia Carreira, María Teresa Camps, Nuria Navarrete, María F González-Escribano, Esther Vicente-Rabaneda, Luis Rodríguez, Carlos Tolosa, José A Román-Ivorra, Inmaculada Gómez-Gracia, Francisco J García-Hernández, Iván Castellví, María Gallego, Antonio Fernández-Nebro, Rosa García-Portales, María Victoria Egurbide, Vicente Fonollosa, Paloma García de la Peña, Ana Pros, Miguel A González-Gay, Roger Hesselstrand, Gabriela Riemekasten, Torsten Witte, Marieke J H Coenen, Bobby P Koeleman, Frederic Houssiau, Vanessa Smith, Filip de Keyser, Rene Westhovens, Ellen De Langhe, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Annemie J Schuerwegh, Meng May Chee, Rajan Madhok, Paul Shiels, Carmen Fonseca, Christopher Denton, Kathleen Claes, Leonid Padykov, Annika Nordin, Øyvind Palm, Benedicte A Lie, Paolo Airó, Raffaella Scorza, Jacob M van Laar, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Alexander Kreuter, Ariane Herrick, Jane Worthington, Timothy R D J Radstake, Javier Martín, Blanca Rueda
• Extended report: Parity, time since last live birth and long-term functional outcome: a study of women participating in the Norfolk Arthritis Register (3 March, 2011)

  E M Camacho, M Harrison, T M Farragher, M Lunt, D K Bunn, S M M Verstappen, D P M Symmons