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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Association of atherosclerosis with presence and progression of osteoarthritis: the Rotterdam Study (6 May, 2012)

  Theun Antonius Hoeven, Maryam Kavousi, Stefan Clockaerts, Hanneke J M Kerkhof, Joyce B van Meurs, Oscar Franco, Albert Hofman, Patrick Bindels, Jacqueline Witteman, Sita Bierma-Zeinstra
• Extended Report: Genetic and environmental determinants for disease risk in subsets of rheumatoid arthritis defined by the anticitrullinated protein/peptide antibody fine specificity profile (1 June, 2012)

  Karin Lundberg, Camilla Bengtsson, Nastya Kharlamova, Evan Reed, Xia Jiang, Henrik Kallberg, Iskra Pollak-Dorocic, Lena Israelsson, Christoph Kessel, Leonid Padyukov, Rikard Holmdahl, Lars Alfredsson, Lars Klareskog
• Extended report: Immunogenicity and safety of a quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case–control study (15 May, 2012)

  Chi Chiu Mok, Ling Yin Ho, Lai Shan Fong, Chi Hung To
• Extended Report: The ability of synovitis to predict structural damage in rheumatoid arthritis: a comparative study between clinical examination and ultrasound (7 June, 2012)

  Maxime Dougados, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec, Jean françois Ferlet, sandrine Jousse-Joulin, Maria-Antonietta D'Agostino, Marina Backhaus, Jacques Bentin, Gérard Chalès, Isabelle Chary-Valckenaere, Philip Conaghan, Richard J Wakefield, Frédéric Etcheparre, Philippe Gaudin, Walter Grassi, Désirée van der Heijde, Xavier Mariette, Esperanza Naredo, Marcin Szkudlarek
• Extended report: Decline in work disability caused by early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a nationwide Finnish register, 2000–8 (7 June, 2012)

  Vappu Marianna Rantalaiho, Hannu Kautiainen, Salme Järvenpää, Lauri Virta, Timo Pohjolainen, Markku Korpela, Timo Möttönen, Kari Puolakka
• Extended report: Treatment of autoinflammatory diseases: results from the Eurofever Registry and a literature review (29 June, 2012)

  Nienke ter Haar, Helen Lachmann, Seza Özen, Pat Woo, Yosef Uziel, Consuelo Modesto, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Luca Cantarini, Antonella Insalaco, Bénédicte Neven, Michael Hofer, Donato Rigante, Sulaiman Al-Mayouf, Isabelle Touitou, Romina Gallizzi, Efimia Papadopoulou-Alataki, Silvana Martino, Jasmin Kuemmerle-Deschner, Laura Obici, Nicolae Iagaru, Anna Simon, Susan Nielsen, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto, Marco Gattorno, Joost Frenkel, Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) and the Eurofever/Eurotraps Projects”
• Extended report: The PRINTO criteria for clinically inactive disease in juvenile dermatomyositis (26 June, 2012)

  Dragana Lazarevic, Angela Pistorio, Elena Palmisani, Paivi Miettunen, Angelo Ravelli, Clarissa Pilkington, Nico M Wulffraat, Clara Malattia, Stella Maris Garay, Michael Hofer, Pierre Quartier, Pavla Dolezalova, Inmaculada Calvo Penades, Virginia P L Ferriani, Gerd Ganser, Ozgur Kasapcopur, Jose Antonio Melo-Gomes, Ann M Reed, Malgorzata Wierzbowska, Lisa G Rider, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto, for the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO)
• Extended report: Epidemiology of gout and hyperuricaemia in Italy during the years 2005–2009: a nationwide population-based study (26 June, 2012)

  Gianluca Trifirò, Paolo Morabito, Lorenzo Cavagna, Carmen Ferrajolo, Serena Pecchioli, Monica Simonetti, Elisa Bianchini, Gerardo Medea, Claudio Cricelli, Achille P Caputi, Giampiero Mazzaglia
• Extended report: A urate gene-by-diuretic interaction and gout risk in participants with hypertension: results from the ARIC study (29 June, 2012)

  Mara A McAdams-DeMarco, Janet W Maynard, Alan N Baer, Linda W Kao, Anna Kottgen, Josef Coresh
• Extended report: Quantitative MRI measures of cartilage predict knee replacement: a case–control study from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (23 June, 2012)

  Felix Eckstein, C Kent Kwoh, Robert M Boudreau, Zhijie Wang, Michael J Hannon, Sebastian Cotofana, Martin I Hudelmaier, Wolfgang Wirth, Ali Guermazi, Michael C Nevitt, Markus R John, David J Hunter, for the OAI investigators
• Extended report: The burden of carotid artery plaques is higher in patients with psoriatic arthritis compared with those with psoriasis alone (26 June, 2012)

  Lihi Eder, Jai Jayakar, Sutha Shanmugarajah, Arane Thavaneswaran, Daniel Pereira, Vinod Chandran, Cheryl F Rosen, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: Effectiveness and safety of a second and third biological agent after failing etanercept in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results from the Dutch National ABC Register (23 June, 2012)

  Marieke H Otten, Femke H M Prince, Janneke Anink, Rebecca ten Cate, Esther P A H Hoppenreijs, Wineke Armbrust, Yvonne Koopman-Keemink, Philomine A van Pelt, Sylvia Kamphuis, Simone L Gorter, Koert M Dolman, Joost F Swart, J Merlijn van den Berg, Nico M Wulffraat, Marion A J van Rossum, Lisette W A van Suijlekom-Smit
• Extended report: Prevalence of interferon type I signature in CD14 monocytes of patients with Sjögren's syndrome and association with disease activity and BAFF gene expression (26 June, 2012)

  Zana Brkic, Naomi I Maria, Cornelia G van Helden-Meeuwsen, Joop P van de Merwe, Paul L van Daele, Virgil A Dalm, Manon E Wildenberg, Wouter Beumer, Hemmo A Drexhage, Marjan A Versnel
• Extended report: High prevalence of psoriatic arthritis in patients with severe psoriasis with suboptimal performance of screening questionnaires (23 June, 2012)

  Muhammad Haroon, Brian Kirby, Oliver FitzGerald
• Concise report: Oral administration of GLPG0259, an inhibitor of MAPKAPK5, a new target for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: a phase II, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial (17 November, 2012)

  René Westhovens, Filip De Keyser, Dmytro Rekalov, Evgeny L Nasonov, Johan Beetens, Annegret Van der Aa, Piet Wigerinck, Florence Namour, Frédéric Vanhoutte, Patrick Durez
• Concise report: Do the 2010 ACR/EULAR or ACR 1987 classification criteria predict erosive disease in early arthritis? (21 November, 2012)

  Heidi Mäkinen, Kalevi Kaarela, Heini Huhtala, Pekka J Hannonen, Markku Korpela, Tuulikki Sokka