Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Efficacy of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, glucocorticoids and tofacitinib: a systematic literature review informing the 2013 update of the EULAR recommendations for management of rheumatoid arthritis (6 January, 2014)

  Cécile Gaujoux-Viala, Jackie Nam, Sofia Ramiro, Robert Landewé, Maya H Buch, Josef S Smolen, Laure Gossec
• Extended report: Efficacy of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a systematic literature review informing the 2013 update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (7 January, 2014)

  Jackie L Nam, Sofia Ramiro, Cecile Gaujoux-Viala, Kaoru Takase, Mario Leon-Garcia, Paul Emery, Laure Gossec, Robert Landewe, Josef S Smolen, Maya H Buch
• Extended report: Safety of synthetic and biological DMARDs: a systematic literature review informing the 2013 update of the EULAR recommendations for management of rheumatoid arthritis (8 January, 2014)

  Sofia Ramiro, Cécile Gaujoux-Viala, Jackie L Nam, Josef S Smolen, Maya Buch, Laure Gossec, Désirée van der Heijde, Kevin Winthrop, Robert Landewé
• Extended report: Adalimumab, a human anti-TNF monoclonal antibody, outcome study for the prevention of joint damage in Japanese patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: the HOPEFUL 1 study (11 January, 2013)

  Tsutomu Takeuchi, Hisashi Yamanaka, Naoki Ishiguro, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Masaya Mukai, Tsukasa Matsubara, Shoji Uchida, Hideto Akama, Hartmut Kupper, Vipin Arora, Yoshiya Tanaka
• Extended report: Quantitative measurement of syndesmophyte volume and height in ankylosing spondylitis using CT (23 January, 2013)

  Sovira Tan, Jianhua Yao, John A Flynn, Lawrence Yao, Michael M Ward
• Extended report: Measurement invariance of the Illness Invalidation Inventory (3*I) across language, rheumatic disease and gender (14 February, 2013)

  Marianne Belia Kool, Rens van de Schoot, Isabel López-Chicheri García, Ricarda Mewes, José A P Da Silva, Karoline Vangronsveld, Andreas A J Wismeijer, Mark A Lumley, Henriët van Middendorp, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Geert Crombez, Winfried Rief, Rinie Geenen
• Extended report: Secondary analysis of APPLE study suggests atorvastatin may reduce atherosclerosis progression in pubertal lupus patients with higher C reactive protein (22 February, 2013)

  Stacy P Ardoin, Laura Eve Schanberg, Christy I Sandborg, Huiman X Barnhart, Greg W Evans, Eric Yow, Kelly L Mieszkalski, Norman T Ilowite, Anne Eberhard, Lisa F Imundo, Yuki Kimura, Deborah Levy, Emily von Scheven, Earl Silverman, Suzanne L Bowyer, L Punaro, Nora G Singer, David D Sherry, Deborah K McCurdy, Marissa Klein-Gitelman, Carol Wallace, Richard M Silver, Linda Wagner-Weiner, Gloria C Higgins, Hermine I Brunner, Lawrence Jung, Jennifer B Soep, Ann M Reed, Susan D Thompson, for the APPLE investigators
• Extended report: Clustering of hand osteoarthritis progression and its relationship to progression of osteoarthritis at the knee (23 February, 2013)

  Jessica Bijsterbosch, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Iain Watt, Frits R Rosendaal, Tom W J Huizinga, Margreet Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Association between testosterone levels and risk of future rheumatoid arthritis in men: a population-based case–control study (3 April, 2013)

  Mitra Pikwer, Aleksander Giwercman, Ulf Bergström, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Lennart T H Jacobsson, Carl Turesson
• Extended report: The autoantibody repertoire in periodontitis: a role in the induction of autoimmunity to citrullinated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis? (23 February, 2013)

  Paola de Pablo, Thomas Dietrich, Iain L C Chapple, Michael Milward, Muslima Chowdhury, Peter J Charles, Christopher D Buckley, Patrick J Venables
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of adalimumab in Chinese adults with active ankylosing spondylitis: results of a randomised, controlled trial (8 March, 2013)

  Feng Huang, Jieruo Gu, Ping Zhu, Chunde Bao, Jianhua Xu, Huji Xu, Huaxiang Wu, Guochun Wang, Qun Shi, Nupun Andhivarothai, Jaclyn Anderson, Aileen L Pangan
• Concise report: Biologic discontinuation studies: a systematic review of methods (30 May, 2013)

  Kazuki Yoshida, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Arthur Kavanaugh, Sang-Cheol Bae, Michael E Weinblatt, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Kazuo Matsui, Shigeto Tohma, Daniel H Solomon