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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Prospective observational single-centre cohort study to evaluate the effectiveness of treating lupus nephritis with rituximab and mycophenolate mofetil but no oral steroids (5 June, 2013) Free

  Marie B Condon, Damien Ashby, Ruth J Pepper, H Terence Cook, Jeremy B Levy, Megan Griffith, Tom D Cairns, Liz Lightstone
• Extended report: Impact of intravenous abatacept on synovitis, osteitis and structural damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate: the ASSET randomised controlled trial (21 August, 2012)

  Philip G Conaghan, Patrick Durez, Rieke E Alten, Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, Paul P Tak, Lars Klareskog, Anca Irinel Catrina, Julie DiCarlo, Corine Gaillez, Manuela Le Bars, Xianhuang Zhou, Charles Peterfy
• Extended report:

  Improved early identification of arthritis: evaluating the efficacy of Early Arthritis Recognition Clinics

  (5 September, 2012)

  Jessica A B van Nies, Elisabeth Brouwer, Floris A van Gaalen, Cornelia F Allaart, Tom W J Huizinga, Marcel D Posthumus, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Extended report: Reasons for medical help-seeking behaviour of patients with recent-onset arthralgia (6 September, 2012)

  Jessica A B van Nies, Elisabeth Brouwer, Diederik P C de Rooy, Floris A van Gaalen, Tom W J Huizinga, Marcel D Posthumus, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Extended report: Clinical associations of the metabolic syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus: data from an international inception cohort (3 September, 2012)

  Ben Parker, Murray B Urowitz, Dafna D Gladman, Mark Lunt, Sang-Cheol Bae, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero, Juanita Romero-Diaz, Caroline Gordon, Daniel J Wallace, Ann E Clarke, Sasha Bernatsky, Ellen M Ginzler, David A Isenberg, Anisur Rahman, Joan T Merrill, Graciela S Alarcón, Barri J Fessler, Paul R Fortin, John G Hanly, Michelle Petri, Kristjan Steinsson, Mary-Anne Dooley, Susan Manzi, Munther A Khamashta, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Asad A Zoma, Gunnar K Sturfelt, Ola Nived, Cynthia Aranow, Meggan Mackay, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Raymond F van Vollenhoven, Kenneth C Kalunian, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Sam Lim, Diane L Kamen, Christine A Peschken, Murat Inanc, Ian N Bruce
• Extended report: The incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in the UK: comparisons using the 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria and the 1987 ACR classification criteria. Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register (3 September, 2012)

  Jennifer H Humphreys, Suzanne M M Verstappen, Kimme L Hyrich, Jacqueline R Chipping, Tarnya Marshall, Deborah P M Symmons
• Extended report: Serum urate association with hypertension in young adults: analysis from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults cohort (14 September, 2012)

  Angelo L Gaffo, David R Jacobs, Femke Sijtsma, Cora E Lewis, Ted R Mikuls, Kenneth G Saag
• Extended report: Reliability of a consensus-based ultrasound score for tenosynovitis in rheumatoid arthritis (14 September, 2012)

  Esperanza Naredo, Maria Antonietta D'Agostino, Richard J Wakefield, Ingrid Möller, Peter V Balint, Emilio Filippucci, Annamaria Iagnocco, Zunaid Karim, Lene Terslev, David A Bong, Jesús Garrido, David Martínez-Hernández, George A W Bruyn, on behalf of the OMERACT Ultrasound Task Force*
• Extended report: Application of the 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria in patients with very early inflammatory arthritis: analysis of sensitivity, specificity and predictive values in the SAVE study cohort (15 September, 2012)

  Iuliia Biliavska, Tanja A Stamm, Jose Martinez-Avila, Thomas W J Huizinga, Robert B M Landewé, Günter Steiner, Daniel Aletaha, Josef S Smolen, Klaus P Machold
• Extended report: Serum proteins reflecting inflammation, injury and repair as biomarkers of disease activity in ANCA-associated vasculitis (12 September, 2012)

  Paul A Monach, Roscoe L Warner, Gunnar Tomasson, Ulrich Specks, John H Stone, Linna Ding, Fernando C Fervenza, Barri J Fessler, Gary S Hoffman, David Iklé, Cees GM Kallenberg, Jeffrey Krischer, Carol A Langford, Mark Mueller, Philip Seo, E William St. Clair, Robert Spiera, Nadia Tchao, Steven R Ytterberg, Kent J Johnson, Peter A Merkel
• Extended report: The structural basis of MRI bone erosions: an assessment by microCT (19 September, 2012)

  Andreas Albrecht, Stephanie Finzel, Matthias Englbrecht, Jürgen Rech, Axel Hueber, Philipp Schlechtweg, Michael Uder, Georg Schett
• Concise report: Smoking and delay to diagnosis are associated with poorer functional outcome in psoriatic arthritis (3 January, 2013)

  William Tillett, Deepak Jadon, Gavin Shaddick, Charlotte Cavill, Eleanor Korendowych, Corinne S de Vries, Neil McHugh
• Concise report: Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving tocilizumab therapy (23 January, 2013)

  Shunsuke Mori, Yukitaka Ueki, Yukihiro Akeda, Naoyuki Hirakata, Motohiro Oribe, Yoshiki Shiohira, Toshihiko Hidaka, Kazunori Oishi