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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of secukinumab, a fully human anti-interleukin-17A monoclonal antibody, in patients with moderate-to-severe psoriatic arthritis: a 24-week, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II proof-of-concept trial (29 January, 2013)

  Iain B McInnes, Joachim Sieper, Jürgen Braun, Paul Emery, Désirée van der Heijde, John D Isaacs, Georg Dahmen, Jürgen Wollenhaupt, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Joseph Kogan, Shenglin Ma, Martin M Schumacher, Arthur P Bertolino, Wolfgang Hueber, Paul P Tak
• Extended report: Shared care or nursing consultations as an alternative to rheumatologist follow-up for rheumatoid arthritis outpatients with low disease activity—patient outcomes from a 2-year, randomised controlled trial (5 February, 2013)

  Jette Primdahl, Jan Sørensen, Hans Christian Horn, Randi Petersen, Kim Hørslev-Petersen
• Extended report: Metric properties of advanced imaging methods in osteoarthritis of the hand: a systematic review (24 January, 2013)

  Michael S Saltzherr, Ruud W Selles, Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra, Galied S R Muradin, J Henk Coert, Johan W van Neck, Jolanda J Luime
• Extended report: Randomised, controlled trial of avocado–soybean unsaponifiable (Piascledine) effect on structure modification in hip osteoarthritis: the ERADIAS study (23 January, 2013)

  Emmanuel Maheu, Christian Cadet, Marc Marty, Dominique Moyse, Isabelle Kerloch, Philippe Coste, Maxime Dougados, Bernard Mazières, Tim D Spector, Hafid Halhol, Jean-Marie Grouin, Michel Lequesne
• Extended report: Low-dose aspirin use and recurrent gout attacks (23 January, 2013)

  Yuqing Zhang, Tuhina Neogi, Clara Chen, Christine Chaisson, David J Hunter, Hyon Choi
• Extended report: Chronological reading of radiographs in rheumatoid arthritis increases efficiency and does not lead to bias (24 January, 2013)

  Lilian H D van Tuyl, Désirée van der Heijde, Dirk L Knol, Maarten Boers
• Extended report: Five-year outcomes of probable rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate or placebo during the first year (the PROMPT study) (19 January, 2013)

  Jill van Aken, Lotte Heimans, Henrike Gillet-van Dongen, Karen Visser, H Karel Ronday, Irene Speyer, André J Peeters, Tom W J Huizinga, Cornelia F Allaart
• Extended report: Validation of the systemic lupus erythematosus responder index for use in juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (23 January, 2013)

  Rina Mina, Marisa S Klein-Gitelman, Shannen Nelson, B Anne Eberhard, Gloria Higgins, Nora G Singer, Karen Onel, Lori Tucker, Kathleen M O'Neil, Marilynn Punaro, Deborah M Levy, Kathleen Haines, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto, Daniel Lovell, Hermine I Brunner
• Extended report: Early psoriatic arthritis: short symptom duration, male gender and preserved physical functioning at presentation predict favourable outcome at 5-year follow-up. Results from the Swedish Early Psoriatic Arthritis Register (SwePsA) (25 January, 2013)

  Elke Theander, Tomas Husmark, Gerd-Marie Alenius, Per T Larsson, Annika Teleman, Mats Geijer, Ulla R C Lindqvist
• Extended report: Effect of tumour necrosis factor blockers on radiographic progression of psoriatic arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (25 January, 2013)

  Radjiv Goulabchand, Gaël Mouterde, Thomas Barnetche, Cédric Lukas, Jacques Morel, Bernard Combe
• Extended report: The enhanced liver fibrosis test: a clinical grade, validated serum test, biomarker of overall fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (19 March, 2013)

  Giuseppina Abignano, Giovanna Cuomo, Maya H Buch, William M Rosenberg, Gabriele Valentini, Paul Emery, Francesco Del Galdo
• Concise report: Long-term outcome of Rheumatoid Arthritis defined according to the 2010-classification criteria (9 May, 2013)

  L E Burgers, J A B van Nies, L Y Ho, D P C de Rooy, T W J Huizinga, A H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Concise report: Relationship between the functional exon 3 deleted growth hormone receptor polymorphism and symptomatic osteoarthritis in women (5 June, 2013)

  K M J A Claessen, M Kloppenburg, H M Kroon, J Bijsterbosch, A M Pereira, J A Romijn, T van der Straaten, R G H H Nelissen, A Hofman, A G Uitterlinden, B J Duijnisveld, N Lakenberg, M Beekman, J B van Meurs, P E Slagboom, N R Biermasz, I Meulenbelt