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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Weight loss in obese people has structure-modifying effects on medial but not on lateral knee articular cartilage (30 November, 2011) Free

  A Anandacoomarasamy, S Leibman, G Smith, I Caterson, B Giuffre, M Fransen, P N Sambrook, L March
• Extended report: Remission in early rheumatoid arthritis defined by 28 joint counts: limited consequences of residual disease activity in the forefeet on outcome (27 September, 2011)

  Lilian H D van Tuyl, Karin Britsemmer, George A Wells, Josef S Smolen, Bin Zhang, Julia Funovits, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, David Felson, Maarten Boers
• Extended report: Evaluation of abatacept administered subcutaneously in adults with active rheumatoid arthritis: impact of withdrawal and reintroduction on immunogenicity, efficacy and safety (phase Iiib ALLOW study) (13 September, 2011)

  Jeffrey Kaine, Geoffrey Gladstein, Ingrid Strusberg, Manuel Robles, Ingrid Louw, Sheila Gujrathi, Ramesh Pappu, Ingrid Delaet, Miranda Pans, Charles Ludivico
• Extended report: Assessment and determinants of aesthetic discomfort in hand osteoarthritis (6 September, 2011)

  Bridget Hodkinson, Emmanuel Maheu, Mathilde Michon, Fabrice Carrat, Francis Berenbaum
• Extended report: Human leucocyte antigen risk alleles for psoriatic arthritis among patients with psoriasis (6 September, 2011)

  Lihi Eder, Vinod Chandran, Fawnda Pellet, Sutha Shanmugarajah, Cheryl F Rosen, Shelley B Bull, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: Validation of the ASAS criteria and definition of a positive MRI of the sacroiliac joint in an inception cohort of axial spondyloarthritis followed up for 8 years (6 September, 2011)

  Sibel Z Aydin, W P Maksymowych, A N Bennett, D McGonagle, P Emery, H Marzo-Ortega
• Extended report: Risk of thromboembolic events after recurrent spontaneous abortion in antiphospholipid syndrome: a case–control study (6 September, 2011)

  Maria Angeles Martinez-Zamora, Sara Peralta, Montserrat Creus, Dolors Tassies, Juan Carlos Reverter, Gerard Espinosa, Ricard Cervera, Francisco Carmona, Juan Balasch
• Extended report: Predictive role of capillaroscopic skin ulcer risk index in systemic sclerosis: a multicentre validation study (13 September, 2011)

  M Sebastiani, A Manfredi, G Vukatana, S Moscatelli, L Riato, M Bocci, M Iudici, A Principato, S Mazzuca, P Del Medico, R De Angelis, R D'Amico, R Vicini, M Colaci, C Ferri
• Extended report: Low circulating Dickkopf-1 and its link with severity of spinal involvement in diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (7 September, 2011)

  L Senolt, H Hulejova, O Krystufkova, S Forejtova, L Andres Cerezo, J Gatterova, K Pavelka, J Vencovsky
• Concise report: Takayasu arteritis is characterised by disturbances of B cell homeostasis and responds to B cell depletion therapy with rituximab (27 September, 2011)

  Bimba F Hoyer, Imtiaz M Mumtaz, Konstanze Loddenkemper, Anne Bruns, Claudia Sengler, Kay-Geert Hermann, Sofiane Maza, Rolf Keitzer, Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, Frank Buttgereit, Andreas Radbruch, Falk Hiepe
• Concise report: Abatacept modulates proinflammatory macrophage responses upon cytokine-activated T cell and Toll-like receptor ligand stimulation (8 September, 2011)

  M H Wenink, K C M Santegoets, A M Platt, W B van den Berg, P L C M van Riel, P Garside, T R D J Radstake, I B McInnes
• Concise report: Efficacy of rituximab in primary Sjögren's syndrome with peripheral nervous system involvement: results from the AIR registry (16 September, 2011)

  A Mekinian, P Ravaud, P Y Hatron, C Larroche, J Leone, B Gombert, M Hamidou, A Cantagrel, C Marcelli, S Rist, M Breban, D Launay, O Fain, J E Gottenberg, X Mariette
• Concise report: Patients non-responding to etanercept obtain lower etanercept concentrations compared with responding patients (12 September, 2011)

  A Jamnitski, C L Krieckaert, M T Nurmohamed, M H Hart, B A Dijkmans, L Aarden, A E Voskuyl, G J Wolbink