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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Effect of baseline rheumatoid factor and anticitrullinated peptide antibody serotype on rituximab clinical response: a meta-analysis (11 June, 2012)

  John D Isaacs, Stanley B Cohen, Paul Emery, Paul P Tak, Jianmei Wang, Guiyuan Lei, Sarah Williams, Preeti Lal, Simon J Read
• Extended report: Chemokine receptor CCR1 antagonist CCX354-C treatment for rheumatoid arthritis: CARAT-2, a randomised, placebo controlled clinical trial (15 May, 2012)

  Paul P Tak, Andra Balanescu, Vira Tseluyko, Silvia Bojin, Edit Drescher, Dan Dairaghi, Shichang Miao, Vittorio Marchesin, Juan Jaen, Thomas J Schall, Pirow Bekker
• Extended report: Evaluating joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis: is it necessary to radiograph both hands and feet? (12 May, 2012)

  R Knevel, KY Kwok, DPC de Rooy, MD Posthumus, TWJ Huizinga, E Brouwer, AHM van der Helm-van Mil
• Extended report: Childhood socioeconomic factors and perinatal characteristics influence development of rheumatoid arthritis in adulthood (14 May, 2012)

  Christine G Parks, Aimee A D'Aloisio, Lisa A DeRoo, Kirstin Huiber, Lisa G Rider, Frederick W Miller, Dale P Sandler
• Extended report: Autoantibodies to citrullinated fibrinogen compared with anti-MCV and anti-CCP2 antibodies in diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis at an early stage: data from the French ESPOIR cohort (12 May, 2012)

  Pascale Nicaise-Roland, Leonor Nogueira, Christophe Demattei, Luc de Chaisemartin, Nathalie Rincheval, Martin Cornillet, Sabine Grootenboer-Mignot, Philippe Dieudé, Maxime Dougados, Alain Cantagrel, Olivier Meyer, Guy Serre, Sylvie Chollet-Martin
• Extended report: MRI versus conventional measures of disease activity and structural damage in evaluating treatment efficacy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (4 July, 2012)

  C Malattia, A Consolaro, S Pederzoli, A Madeo, A Pistorio, M Mazzoni, C Mattiuz, GM Magnano, S Viola, A Buoncompagni, E Palmisani, R Hasija, N Ruperto, A Ravelli, A Martini
• Extended report: The prevalence of inflammatory back pain: population-based estimates from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–10 (11 July, 2012)

  Michael H Weisman, James P Witter, John D Reveille
• Extended report: Prognostic factors of survival in patients with non-infectious mixed cryoglobulinaemia vasculitis: data from 242 cases included in the CryoVas survey (14 May, 2012)

  Benjamin Terrier, Fabrice Carrat, Evguenia Krastinova, Isabelle Marie, David Launay, Adeline Lacraz, Pauline Belenotti, Luc de Saint Martin, Thomas Quemeneur, Antoine Huart, Fabrice Bonnet, Guillaume Le Guenno, Jean-Emmanuel Kahn, Olivier Hinschberger, Patricia Rullier, Aurelie Hummel, Elisabeth Diot, Christian Pagnoux, Estibaliz Lzaro, Frank Bridoux, Thierry Zenone, Olivier Hermine, Jean-Marc Leger, Xavier Mariette, Patricia Senet, Emmanuelle Plaisier, Patrice Cacoub
• Extended report: Intravenous golimumab is effective in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis despite methotrexate therapy with responses as early as week 2: results of the phase 3, randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled GO-FURTHER trial (1 June, 2012)

  Michael E Weinblatt, Clifton O Bingham, Alan M Mendelsohn, Lilianne Kim, Michael Mack, Jiandong Lu, Daniel Baker, Rene Westhovens
• Extended report: Lung ultrasound for the screening of interstitial lung disease in very early systemic sclerosis (15 May, 2012)

  Tatiana Barskova, Luna Gargani, Serena Guiducci, Silvia Bellando Randone, Cosimo Bruni, Giulia Carnesecchi, Maria Letizia Conforti, Francesco Porta, Alberto Pignone, Davide Caramella, Eugenio Picano, Marco Matucci Cerinic
• Extended report: Interleukin-6 receptor blockade induces limited repair of bone erosions in rheumatoid arthritis: a micro CT study (14 May, 2012)

  Stephanie Finzel, Juergen Rech, Sarah Schmidt, Klaus Engelke, Matthias Englbrecht, Georg Schett
• Extended report: Risk of sick leave and disability pension in working-age women and men with knee osteoarthritis (7 June, 2012)

  Jenny Hubertsson, Ingemar F Petersson, Carina A Thorstensson, Martin Englund
• Concise report: Meta-analysis suggests that intensive non-biological combination therapy with step-down prednisolone (COBRA strategy) may also ‘disconnect’ disease activity and damage in rheumatoid arthritis (15 November, 2012)

  Maarten Boers, Lilian van Tuyl, Marianne van den Broek, Piet J Kostense, Cornelia F Allaart
• Concise report: Efficacy of anti-IL-1 treatment in Majeed syndrome (20 October, 2012)

  Troels Herlin, Bente Fiirgaard, Mette Bjerre, Gitte Kerndrup, Henrik Hasle, Xinyu Bing, Polly J Ferguson
• Concise report: Microscopic gut inflammation in axial spondyloarthritis: a multiparametric predictive model (8 November, 2012)

  Liesbet Van Praet, Filip E Van den Bosch, Peggy Jacques, Philippe Carron, Lennart Jans, Roos Colman, Elien Glorieus, Harald Peeters, Herman Mielants, Martine De Vos, Claude Cuvelier, Dirk Elewaut