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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Obesity and risk of incident psoriatic arthritis in US women (5 May, 2012) Free

  Wenqing Li, Jiali Han, Abrar A Qureshi
• Extended report: Obesity and the risk of psoriatic arthritis: a population-based study (14 May, 2012) Free

  Thorvardur Jon Love, Yanyan Zhu, Yuqing Zhang, Lindsay Wall-Burns, Alexis Ogdie, Joel M Gelfand, Hyon K Choi
• Extended report: Descriptions of spinal MRI lesions and definition of a positive MRI of the spine in axial spondyloarthritis: a consensual approach by the ASAS/OMERACT MRI study group (14 May, 2012)

  Kay-Geert A Hermann, Xenofon Baraliakos, Désirée MFM van der Heijde, Anne-Grethe Jurik, Robert Landewé, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Mikkel Østergaard, Martin Rudwaleit, Joachim Sieper, Jürgen Braun
• Extended report: Safety and efficacy of ocrelizumab in combination with methotrexate in MTX-naive subjects with rheumatoid arthritis: the phase III FILM trial (2 February, 2012)

  William Stohl, Juan Gomez-Reino, Ewa Olech, Jean Dudler, Roy M Fleischmann, Cristiano A F Zerbini, Ali Ashrafzadeh, Susanna Grzeschik, Rebecca Bieraugel, Jennifer Green, Steven Francom, Wolfgang Dummer
• Extended report: Responsiveness of disease activity indices ESSPRI and ESSDAI in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome treated with rituximab (17 January, 2012)

  P M Meiners, S Arends, E Brouwer, F K L Spijkervet, A Vissink, H Bootsma
• Extended report: Comparative effectiveness and safety of biological treatment options after tumour necrosis factor α inhibitor failure in rheumatoid arthritis: systematic review and indirect pairwise meta-analysis (30 January, 2012)

  Monika Schoels, Daniel Aletaha, Josef S Smolen, John B Wong
• Extended report: Polymorphisms of the IgH enhancer HS1.2 and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (31 January, 2012)

  Domenico Frezza, Barbara Tolusso, Vincenzo Giambra, Elisa Gremese, Maurizio Marchini, Marcin Nowik, Eliseo Serone, Pietro D'Addabbo, Claudia Mattioli, Silvia Canestri, Luca Petricca, Graziella D'Antona, Barbara K Birshtein, Raffaella Scorza, Gianfranco Ferraccioli
• Extended report: Can flare be predicted in DMARD treated RA patients in remission, and is it important? A cohort study (31 January, 2012)

  Benazir Saleem, Andrew K Brown, Mark Quinn, Zunaid Karim, Elizabeth M A Hensor, Philip Conaghan, Charles Peterfy, Richard J Wakefield, Paul Emery
• Extended report: Zoledronic acid reduces knee pain and bone marrow lesions over 1 year: a randomised controlled trial (21 February, 2012)

  Laura Louise Laslett, Dawn A Doré, Stephen J Quinn, Philippa Boon, Emma Ryan, Tania Maree Winzenberg, Graeme Jones
• Extended report: Distribution of arterial lesions in Takayasu's arteritis and giant cell arteritis (10 February, 2012)

  Peter C Grayson, Kathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon, Tiffany M Clark, Gunnar Tomasson, David Cuthbertson, Simon Carette, Nader A Khalidi, Carol A Langford, Paul A Monach, Philip Seo, Kenneth J Warrington, Steven R Ytterberg, Gary S Hoffman, Peter A Merkel
• Extended report: Baseline characteristics and follow-up in patients with normal haemodynamics versus borderline mean pulmonary arterial pressure in systemic sclerosis: results from the PHAROS registry (2 February, 2012)

  Sangmee Bae, Rajeev Saggar, Marcy B Bolster, Lorinda Chung, Mary Ellen Csuka, Chris Derk, Robyn Domsic, Aryeh Fischer, Tracy Frech, Avram Goldberg, Monique Hinchcliff, Vivien Hsu, Laura Hummers, Elena Schiopu, Maureen D Mayes, Vallerie McLaughlin, Jerry Molitor, Nausheen Naz, Daniel E Furst, Paul Maranian, Virginia Steen, Dinesh Khanna
• Extended report: Belimumab in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: high disease activity predictors of response (15 February, 2012)

  Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Michelle A Petri, Ricard Cervera, David A Roth, Beulah N Ji, Christi S Kleoudis, Z John Zhong, William Freimuth
• Extended report: Comprehensive assessment of rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility loci in a large psoriatic arthritis cohort (10 February, 2012)

  John Bowes, Pauline Ho, Edw Flynn, Faisal Ali, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Laura C Coates, Rich B Warren, Ross McManus, Anthony W Ryan, David Kane, Eleanor Korendowych, Neil McHugh, Oliver FitzGerald, Jonathon Packham, Ann W Morgan, Ian N Bruce, Anne Barton
• Concise report: Update on the profile of the EUSTAR cohort: an analysis of the EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research group database (21 May, 2012)

  Florian M P Meier, Klaus W Frommer, Robert Dinser, Ulrich A Walker, Laszlo Czirjak, Christopher P Denton, Yannick Allanore, Oliver Distler, Gabriela Riemekasten, Gabriele Valentini, Ulf Müller-Ladner, EUSTAR Co-authors
• Concise report: Differential human leucocyte allele association between psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: a family-based association study (14 May, 2012)

  Lihi Eder, Vinod Chandran, Fawnda Pellett, Sutha Shanmugarajah, Cheryl F Rosen, Shelley B Bull, Dafna D Gladman
• Concise report: Performance of classification criteria for peripheral spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis in the Leiden early arthritis cohort (13 April, 2012)

  Rosaline van den Berg, Floris van Gaalen, Annette van der Helm-van Mil, Tom Huizinga, Désirée van der Heijde
• Concise report: Does the change in season affect disease activity in patients with psoriatic arthritis? (13 April, 2012)

  Zahi Touma, Arane Thavaneswaran, Vinod Chandran, Dafna D Gladman