Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Increased risk of vascular disease associated with gout: a retrospective, matched cohort study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (27 August, 2014)

  Lorna E Clarson, Samantha L Hider, John Belcher, Carl Heneghan, Edward Roddy, Christian D Mallen
• Extended report: Costs for hospital care, drugs and lost work days in incident and prevalent rheumatoid arthritis: how large, and how are they distributed? (9 December, 2013)

  Jonas K Eriksson, Kari Johansson, Johan Askling, Martin Neovius
• Extended report: High incidence of disease recurrence after discontinuation of disease-modifying antirheumatic drug treatment in patients with psoriatic arthritis in remission (12 December, 2013)

  Elizabeth G Araujo, Stephanie Finzel, Matthias Englbrecht, Dominik A Schreiber, Francesca Faustini, Axel Hueber, Kemal Nas, Juergen Rech, Georg Schett
• Extended report: Rising burden of gout in the UK but continuing suboptimal management: a nationwide population study (15 January, 2014)

  Chang-Fu Kuo, Matthew J Grainge, Christian Mallen, Weiya Zhang, Michael Doherty
• Extended report: Performance of four current risk algorithms in predicting cardiovascular events in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (3 January, 2014)

  E E A Arts, C Popa, A A Den Broeder, A G Semb, T Toms, G D Kitas, P L van Riel, J Fransen
• Extended report: Gastrointestinal events in at-risk patients starting non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for rheumatic diseases: the EVIDENCE study of European routine practice (18 December, 2013)

  Angel Lanas, Maarten Boers, Javier Nuevo
• Extended report: Sensitivity and sensitisation in relation to pain severity in knee osteoarthritis: trait or state? (18 December, 2013)

  Tuhina Neogi, Laura Frey-Law, Joachim Scholz, Jingbo Niu, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Clifford Woolf, Michael Nevitt, Laurence Bradley, David T Felson,
• Extended report: Prevalence of spondyloarthritis in reference to HLA-B27 in the French population: results of the GAZEL cohort (18 December, 2013)

  Félicie Costantino, Alice Talpin, Roula Said-Nahal, Marcel Goldberg, Joseph Henny, Gilles Chiocchia, Henri-Jean Garchon, Marie Zins, Maxime Breban
• Extended report: Effect of interleukin-6 receptor blockade on surrogates of vascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis: MEASURE, a randomised, placebo-controlled study (24 December, 2013)

  Iain B McInnes, Liz Thompson, Jon T Giles, Joan M Bathon, Jane E Salmon, Andre D Beaulieu, Christine E Codding, Timothy H Carlson, Christian Delles, Janet S Lee, Naveed Sattar
• Extended report: Circulating C reactive protein in osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (20 December, 2013)

  Xingzhong Jin, Julieta Ruiz Beguerie, Weiya Zhang, Leigh Blizzard, Petr Otahal, Graeme Jones, Changhai Ding
• Extended report: Association between childhood overweight measures and adulthood knee pain, stiffness and dysfunction: a 25-year cohort study (17 December, 2013)

  Benny Antony, Graeme Jones, Alison Venn, Flavia Cicuttini, Lyn March, Leigh Blizzard, Terence Dwyer, Marita Cross, Changhai Ding
• Extended report: Chronic NSAID use and long-term decline of renal function in a prospective rheumatoid arthritis cohort study (19 December, 2013)

  Burkhard Möller, Menno Pruijm, Sabine Adler, Almut Scherer, Peter M Villiger, Axel Finckh,
• Extended report: Comparison of the long-term outcome for patients with rheumatoid arthritis with persistent moderate disease activity or disease remission during the first year after diagnosis: data from the ESPOIR cohort (7 January, 2014)

  B Combe, I Logeart, M C Belkacemi, S Dadoun, T Schaeverbeke, J P Daurès, M Dougados
• Extended report: Disease progression in systemic sclerosis-overlap syndrome is significantly different from limited and diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (3 January, 2014)

  Pia Moinzadeh, Elisabeth Aberer, Keihan Ahmadi-Simab, Norbert Blank, Joerg H W Distler, Gerhard Fierlbeck, Ekkehard Genth, Claudia Guenther, Ruediger Hein, Joerg Henes, Lena Herich, Ilka Herrgott, Ina Koetter, Alexander Kreuter, Thomas Krieg, Kathrin Kuhr, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Florian Meier, Inga Melchers, Hartwig Mensing, Ulf Mueller-Ladner, Christiane Pfeiffer, Gabriela Riemekasten, Miklós Sárdy, Marc Schmalzing, Cord Sunderkoetter, Laura Susok, Ingo H Tarner, Peter Vaith, Margitta Worm, Gottfried Wozel, Gabriele Zeidler, Nicolas Hunzelmann, and all participating DNSS centers
• Extended report: Evolution of cost structures in rheumatoid arthritis over the past decade (9 January, 2014)

  Dörte Huscher, Thomas Mittendorf, Ulrich von Hinüber, Ina Kötter, Guido Hoese, Andrea Pfäfflin, Sascha Bischoff, Angela Zink,
• Extended report: Evaluation of the validity of the different arms of the ASAS set of criteria for axial spondyloarthritis and description of the different imaging abnormalities suggestive of spondyloarthritis: data from the DESIR cohort (3 January, 2014)

  Anna Moltó, Simon Paternotte, Désirée van der Heijde, Pascal Claudepierre, Martin Rudwaleit, Maxime Dougados
• Extended report: Disability and not osteoarthritis predicts cardiovascular disease: a prospective population-based cohort study (2 January, 2014)

  T A Hoeven, M J G Leening, P J Bindels, M Castaño-Betancourt, J B van Meurs, O H Franco, M Kavousi, A Hofman, M A Ikram, J C M Witteman, S M Bierma-Zeinstra
• Concise report: Golimumab administered subcutaneously every 4 weeks in ankylosing spondylitis: 5-year results of the GO-RAISE study (11 November, 2014)

  Atul Deodhar, Jürgen Braun, Robert D Inman, Désirée van der Heijde, Yiying Zhou, Stephen Xu, Chenglong Han, Benjamin Hsu