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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Prediction of improvement in skin fibrosis in diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis: a EUSTAR analysis (25 March, 2016)

  Rucsandra Dobrota, Britta Maurer, Nicole Graf, Suzana Jordan, Carina Mihai, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka, Yannick Allanore, Oliver Distler
• Extended report: Painful knee but not hand osteoarthritis is an independent predictor of mortality over 23 years follow-up of a population-based cohort of middle-aged women (5 November, 2015)

  S Kluzek, M T Sanchez-Santos, K M Leyland, A Judge, T D Spector, D Hart, C Cooper, J Newton, N K Arden
• Extended report: Increased pretreatment serum IFN-β/α ratio predicts non-response to tumour necrosis factor α inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis (6 November, 2015)

  Theresa Wampler Muskardin, Priyanka Vashisht, Jessica M Dorschner, Mark A Jensen, Beverly S Chrabot, Marlena Kern, Jeffrey R Curtis, Maria I Danila, Stacey S Cofield, Nancy Shadick, Peter A Nigrovic, E William St Clair, Clifton O Bingham, Richard Furie, William Robinson, Mark Genovese, Christopher C Striebich, James R O'Dell, Geoffrey M Thiele, Larry W Moreland, Marc Levesque, S Louis Bridges, Peter K Gregersen, Timothy B Niewold
• Extended report: Value of ultrasonography as a marker of early response to abatacept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate: results from the APPRAISE study (20 November, 2015)

  Maria-Antonietta D'Agostino, Richard J Wakefield, Hilde Berner-Hammer, Olivier Vittecoq, Georgios Filippou, Peter Balint, Ingrid Möller, Annamaria Iagnocco, Esperanza Naredo, Mikkel Østergaard, Maarten Boers, Corine Gaillez, Karina Van Holder, Manuela Le Bars
• Extended report: Elucidating the burden of recurrent and chronic digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis: long-term results from the DUO Registry (26 November, 2015)

  Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Thomas Krieg, Loic Guillevin, Barbara Schwierin, Daniel Rosenberg, Peter Cornelisse, Christopher P Denton
• Extended report: Sofosbuvir plus ribavirin for hepatitis C virus-associated cryoglobulinaemia vasculitis: VASCUVALDIC study (13 November, 2015)

  David Saadoun, Vincent Thibault, Si Nafa Si Ahmed, Laurent Alric, Maxime Mallet, Constance Guillaud, Hassane Izzedine, Aurélie Plaisier, Hélène Fontaine, Myrto Costopoulos, Magali Le Garff-Tavernier, Christophe Hezode, Stanislas Pol, Lucile Musset, Thierry Poynard, Patrice Cacoub
• Extended report: Signal intensity alteration in the infrapatellar fat pad at baseline for the prediction of knee symptoms and structure in older adults: a cohort study (26 November, 2015)

  Weiyu Han, Dawn Aitken, Zhaohua Zhu, Andrew Halliday, Xia Wang, Benny Antony, Flavia Cicuttini, Graeme Jones, Changhai Ding
• Extended report: How comparable are rates of malignancies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis across the world? A comparison of cancer rates, and means to optimise their comparability, in five RA registries (30 November, 2015)

  Johan Askling, Niklas Berglind, Stefan Franzen, Thomas Frisell, Christopher Garwood, Jeffrey D Greenberg, Meilien Ho, Marie Holmqvist, Laura Horne, Eisuke Inoue, Kaleb Michaud, Fredrik Nyberg, Dimitrios A Pappas, George Reed, Eiichi Tanaka, Trung N Tran, Suzanne M M Verstappen, Hisashi Yamanaka, Eveline Wesby-van Swaay, Deborah Symmons
• Extended report: Can rheumatoid arthritis (RA) registries provide contextual safety data for modern RA clinical trials? The case for mortality and cardiovascular disease (8 February, 2016)

  Kaleb Michaud, Niklas Berglind, Stefan Franzén, Thomas Frisell, Christopher Garwood, Jeffrey D Greenberg, Meilien Ho, Marie Holmqvist, Laura Horne, Eisuke Inoue, Fredrik Nyberg, Dimitrios A Pappas, George Reed, Deborah Symmons, Eiichi Tanaka, Trung N Tran, Suzanne M M Verstappen, Eveline Wesby-van Swaay, Hisashi Yamanaka, Johan Askling
• Extended report: Comparison of lipid and lipid-associated cardiovascular risk marker changes after treatment with tocilizumab or adalimumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (27 November, 2015)

  Cem Gabay, Iain B McInnes, Arthur Kavanaugh, Katie Tuckwell, Micki Klearman, Jennifer Pulley, Naveed Sattar
• Extended report: Comparative effects of biologics on cardiovascular risk among older patients with rheumatoid arthritis (20 January, 2016)

  Jie Zhang, Fenglong Xie, Huifeng Yun, Lang Chen, Paul Muntner, Emily B Levitan, Monika M Safford, Shia T Kent, Mark T Osterman, James D Lewis, Kenneth Saag, Jasvinder A Singh, Jeffrey R Curtis
• Extended report: Prevalence of ultrasound synovial inflammatory findings in healthy subjects (27 November, 2015)

  Ilaria Padovano, Félicie Costantino, Maxime Breban, Maria Antonietta D'Agostino
• Extended report: Clinical factors, anticitrullinated peptide antibodies and MRI-detected subclinical inflammation in relation to progression from clinically suspect arthralgia to arthritis (27 November, 2015)

  Hanna W van Steenbergen, Lukas Mangnus, Monique Reijnierse, Tom W J Huizinga, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Extended report: Parental rheumatoid arthritis and long-term child morbidity: a nationwide cohort study (23 December, 2015)

  Ane Lilleøre Rom, Chun Sen Wu, Jørn Olsen, Damini Jawaheer, Merete Lund Hetland, Bent Ottesen, Lina Steinrud Mørch
• Extended report: Pregnancy outcomes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a nationwide register study (23 December, 2015)

  Gustav L Jakobsson, Olof Stephansson, Johan Askling, Lennart T H Jacobsson
• Concise report: Real-world comparative risks of herpes virus infections in tofacitinib and biologic-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis (25 April, 2016)

  Jeffrey R Curtis, Fenglong Xie, Huifeng Yun, Sasha Bernatsky, Kevin L Winthrop
• Concise report: Increased arterial wall inflammation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis is reduced by statin therapy (15 April, 2016)

  Fleur M van der Valk, Sophie J Bernelot Moens, Simone L Verweij, Aart C Strang, Aart J Nederveen, Hein J Verberne, Michael T Nurmohamed, Dominique L Baeten, Erik S G Stroes
• Extended report: Osteoarthritic bone marrow lesions almost exclusively colocate with denuded cartilage: a 3D study using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (15 December, 2015)

  Michael A Bowes, Stewart WD McLure, Christopher BH Wolstenholme, Graham R Vincent, Sophie Williams, Andrew Grainger, Philip G Conaghan