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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Bone oedema on MRI is highly associated with low bone mineral density in patients with early inflammatory back pain: results from the DESIR cohort (17 November, 2012)

  Karine Briot, Anne Durnez, Simon Paternotte, Corinne Miceli-Richard, Maxime Dougados, Christian Roux
• Extended report: A prediction rule for the development of arthritis in seropositive arthralgia patients (23 November, 2012)

  Lotte Arwen van de Stadt, Birgit I Witte, Wouter H Bos, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg
• Extended report: Addition of infliximab compared with addition of sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine to methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis: 2-year quality-of-life results of the randomised, controlled, SWEFOT trial (29 November, 2012)

  Johan A Karlsson, Martin Neovius, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Ingemar F Petersson, Johan Bratt, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Sofia Ernestam, Pierre Geborek
• Extended report: Ultrasound for diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome: comparison of different methods to determine median nerve volume and value of power Doppler sonography (4 December, 2012)

  Christian Dejaco, Martin Stradner, Dorothea Zauner, Werner Seel, Nicole Elisabeth Simmet, Alexander Klammer, Petra Heitzer, Kerstin Brickmann, Judith Gretler, Florentine C Fürst-Moazedi, Rene Thonhofer, Rusmir Husic, Josef Hermann, Winfried B Graninger, Stefan Quasthoff
• Extended report: Survival in systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension in the modern management era (24 November, 2012)

  David Launay, Olivier Sitbon, Eric Hachulla, Luc Mouthon, Virginie Gressin, Laurence Rottat, Pierre Clerson, Jean-François Cordier, Gerald Simonneau, Marc Humbert
• Extended report: The immunogenicity of anti-TNF therapy in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: a systematic review of the literature with a meta-analysis (6 December, 2012)

  Sandra Garcês, Jocelyne Demengeot, Elizabeth Benito-Garcia
• Extended report: Serum adipokines in patients with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis alone and their correlation with disease activity (14 December, 2012)

  Lihi Eder, Jai Jayakar, Remy Pollock, Fawnda Pellett, Arane Thavaneswaran, Vinod Chandran, Cheryl F Rosen, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: A multi-centre, blinded, randomised, placebo-controlled, laboratory-based study of MQX-503, a novel topical gel formulation of nitroglycerine, in patients with Raynaud phenomenon (25 December, 2012)

  Laura K Hummers, Carin E Dugowson, Frederick J Dechow, Robert A Wise, Jeffrey Gregory, Joel Michalek, Gayane Yenokyan, John McGready, Fredrick M Wigley
• Extended report: Treatment to lipid targets in patients with inflammatory joint diseases in a preventive cardio-rheuma clinic (22 December, 2012)

  Silvia Rollefstad, Tore K Kvien, Ingar Holme, Anne S Eirheim, Terje R Pedersen, Anne Grete P Semb
• Extended report: Comorbid diseases as predictors of survival of primary total hip and knee replacements: a nationwide register-based study of 96 754 operations on patients with primary osteoarthritis (19 December, 2012)

  Esa Jämsen, Mikko Peltola, Antti Eskelinen, Matti U K Lehto
• Extended report: Validity of a three-variable Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score in children with new-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (20 December, 2012)

  Flora Mcerlane, Michael W Beresford, Eileen M Baildam, S E Alice Chieng, Joyce E Davidson, Helen E Foster, Janet Gardner-Medwin, Mark Lunt, Lucy R Wedderburn, Wendy Thomson, Kimme L Hyrich, on behalf of the Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS)
• Extended report: Large-vessel involvement in giant cell arteritis: a population-based cohort study of the incidence-trends and prognosis (19 December, 2012)

  Tanaz A Kermani, Kenneth J Warrington, Cynthia S Crowson, Steven R Ytterberg, Gene G Hunder, Sherine E Gabriel, Eric L Matteson
• Extended report: Circulating maternal cytokines influence fetal growth in pregnant women with rheumatoid arthritis (21 December, 2012)

  Florentien D O de Steenwinkel, Anita C S Hokken-Koelega, Yaël A de Man, Y B de Rijke, Maria A J de Ridder, Johanna M W Hazes, Radboud J E M Dolhain
• Concise report: Relationship between air pollution and positivity of RA-related autoantibodies in individuals without established RA: a report on SERA (9 April, 2013)

  Ryan W Gan, Kevin D Deane, Gary O Zerbe, M Kristen Demoruelle, Michael H Weisman, Jane H Buckner, Peter K Gregersen, Ted R Mikuls, James R O'Dell, Richard M Keating, V Michael Holers, Jill M Norris
• Concise report: VCAM-1 serum levels are associated with arthropathy in hereditary haemochromatosis (18 April, 2013)

  Valerie Nell-Duxneuner, Roland Axmann, Emma Husar-Memmer, Tomáš Dallos, Christian Datz, Andreas Stadlmayr, Elmar Aigner, Matthias Englbrecht, Georg Schett, Jochen Zwerina