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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Anti-CarP antibodies in two large cohorts of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and their relationship to genetic risk factors, cigarette smoking and other autoantibodies (8 May, 2014) Free

  Xia Jiang, Leendert A Trouw, Tineke J van Wesemael, Jing Shi, Camilla Bengtsson, Henrik Källberg, Vivi Malmström, Lena Israelsson, Hulda Hreggvidsdottir, Willem Verduijn, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Tom W J Huizinga, Rene E M Toes, Karin Lundberg, Diane van der Woude
• Extended report: Is cancer associated with polymyalgia rheumatica? A cohort study in the General Practice Research Database (10 July, 2013)

  Sara Muller, Samantha L Hider, John Belcher, Toby Helliwell, Christian D Mallen
• Extended report: Rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism: a nationwide cohort study (7 August, 2013)

  Wei-Sheng Chung, Chiao-Ling Peng, Cheng-Li Lin, Yen-Jung Chang, Yung-Fu Chen, John Y Chiang, Fung-Chang Sung, Chia-Hung Kao
• Extended report: Validation of OMERACT preliminary rheumatoid arthritis flare domains in the NOR-DMARD study (12 July, 2013)

  Elisabeth Lie, Thasia G Woodworth, Robin Christensen, Tore K Kvien, Vivien Bykerk, Daniel E Furst, Clifton O Bingham, Ernest H Choy, the OMERACT RA Flare Working Group
• Extended report: Prevalence and incidence of systemic sclerosis in southern Sweden: population-based data with case ascertainment using the 1980 ARA criteria and the proposed ACR-EULAR classification criteria (29 July, 2013)

  K Andréasson, T Saxne, C Bergknut, R Hesselstrand, M Englund
• Extended report:

  High frequency of reactive arthritis in adults after Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:1 outbreak caused by contaminated grated carrots

  (12 July, 2013)

  M Vasala, S Hallanvuo, P Ruuska, R Suokas, A Siitonen, M Hakala
• Extended report: Prevalence, extent and composition of coronary plaque in patients with rheumatoid arthritis without symptoms or prior diagnosis of coronary artery disease (25 July, 2013)

  George A Karpouzas, Jennifer Malpeso, Tae-Young Choi, Dong Li, Silvia Munoz, Matthew J Budoff
• Extended report: In juvenile dermatomyositis, cardiac systolic dysfunction is present after long-term follow-up and is predicted by sustained early skin activity (23 July, 2013)

  Thomas Schwartz, Helga Sanner, Ola Gjesdal, Berit Flatø, Ivar Sjaastad
• Extended report: Insights into the efficacy of golimumab plus methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis who discontinued prior anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy: post-hoc analyses from the GO-AFTER study (29 July, 2013)

  Josef S Smolen, Jonathan Kay, Eric L Matteson, Robert Landewé, Elizabeth C Hsia, Stephen Xu, Yiying Zhou, Mittie K Doyle
• Extended report: Which spinal lesions are associated with new bone formation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis treated with anti-TNF agents? A long-term observational study using MRI and conventional radiography (14 July, 2013)

  X Baraliakos, F Heldmann, J Callhoff, J Listing, T Appelboom, J Brandt, F Van den Bosch, M Breban, GR Burmester, M Dougados, P Emery, H Gaston, M Grunke, I E Van Der Horst-Bruinsma, R Landewé, M Leirisalo-Repo, J Sieper, K De Vlam, D Pappas, U Kiltz,, D Van Der Heijde, J Braun
• Extended report: Prospective long term follow-up of a cohort of patients with giant cell arteritis screened for aortic structural damage (aneurysm or dilatation) (19 July, 2013)

  Ana García-Martínez, Pedro Arguis, Sergio Prieto-González, Georgina Espígol-Frigolé, Marco A Alba, Montserrat Butjosa, Itziar Tavera-Bahillo, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Maria C Cid
• Extended report: Evaluation of myocardial function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using strain imaging by speckle-tracking echocardiography (19 July, 2013)

  Nowell M Fine, Cynthia S Crowson, Grace Lin, Jae K Oh, Hector R Villarraga, Sherine E Gabriel
• Concise report:

  SPP1 rs9138 variant contributes to the severity of radiological damage in anti-citrullinated protein autoantibody-negative rheumatoid arthritis

  (16 June, 2014)

  Pierre-Antoine Juge, Hanna W van Steenbergen, Arnaud Constantin, Gabriel J Tobon, Thierry Schaeverbeke, Steven Gazal, Bernard Combe, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec, Delphine Nigon, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Philippe Dieude