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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Do RA or TNF inhibitors increase the risk of cervical neoplasia or of recurrence of previous neoplasia? A nationwide study from Sweden (11 January, 2016) Free

  Hjalmar Wadström, Thomas Frisell, Pär Sparén, Johan Askling
• Extended report: Endometriosis and the risks of systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis in the Nurses’ Health Study II (3 August, 2015)

  Holly R Harris, Karen H Costenbader, Fan Mu, Marina Kvaskoff, Susan Malspeis, Elizabeth W Karlson, Stacey A Missmer
• Extended report: Incidence and predictors of cutaneous manifestations during the early course of systemic sclerosis: a 10-year longitudinal study from the EUSTAR database (31 July, 2015)

  Elina G Wirz, Veronika K Jaeger, Yannick Allanore, Gabriela Riemekasten, Eric Hachulla, Oliver Distler, Paolo Airò, Patricia E Carreira, Mohammed Tikly, Serena Vettori, Alexandra Balbir Gurman, Nemanja Damjanov, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Jörg Distler, Mangtao Li, Peter Häusermann, Ulrich A Walker
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of tofacitinib following inadequate response to conventional synthetic or biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (14 August, 2015)

  Christina Charles-Schoeman, Gerd Burmester, Peter Nash, Cristiano A F Zerbini, Koshika Soma, Kenneth Kwok, Thijs Hendrikx, Eustratios Bananis, Roy Fleischmann
• Extended report: A psychometric analysis of outcome measures in peripheral spondyloarthritis (5 August, 2015)

  Maureen C Turina, Sofia Ramiro, Dominique L Baeten, Philip Mease, Jacqueline E Paramarta, In-Ho Song, Aileen L Pangan, Robert Landewé
• Extended report: Patients with chronic back pain of short duration from the SPACE cohort: which MRI structural lesions in the sacroiliac joints and inflammatory and structural lesions in the spine are most specific for axial spondyloarthritis? (18 August, 2015)

  Manouk de Hooge, Rosaline van den Berg, Victoria Navarro-Compán, Monique Reijnierse, Floris van Gaalen, Karen Fagerli, Robert Landewé, Maikel van Oosterhout, Roberta Ramonda, Tom Huizinga, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Statin use and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis: a general population-based cohort study (5 August, 2015)

  Sara R Schoenfeld, Leo Lu, Sharan K Rai, John D Seeger, Yuqing Zhang, Hyon K Choi
• Extended report: Comparison of the efficacies of abatacept and tocilizumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by propensity score matching (5 August, 2015)

  Satoshi Kubo, Shingo Nakayamada, Kazuhisa Nakano, Shintaro Hirata, Shunsuke Fukuyo, Ippei Miyagawa, Kentaro Hanami, Kazuyoshi Saito, Yoshiya Tanaka
• Extended report: Clinical and MRI responses to etanercept in early non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: 48-week results from the EMBARK study (12 August, 2015)

  Walter P Maksymowych, Maxime Dougados, Désirée van der Heijde, Joachim Sieper, Jürgen Braun, Gustavo Citera, Filip Van den Bosch, Isabelle Logeart, Joseph Wajdula, Heather Jones, Lisa Marshall, Randi Bonin, Ron Pedersen, Bonnie Vlahos, Sameer Kotak, Jack F Bukowski
• Extended report: Effectiveness of tocilizumab with and without synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis: results from a European collaborative study (15 September, 2015)

  Cem Gabay, Myriam Riek, Merete Lund Hetland, Ellen-Margrethe Hauge, Karel Pavelka, Matija Tomšič, Helena Canhao, Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Galina Lukina, Dan C Nordström, Elisabeth Lie, Ioan Ancuta, M Victoria Hernández, Piet L M C van Riel, Ronald van Vollenhoven, Tore K Kvien
• Extended report: A patient-initiated DMARD self-monitoring service for people with rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis on methotrexate: a randomised controlled trial (19 August, 2015)

  Hayley McBain, Michael Shipley, Abigail Olaleye, Samantha Moore, Stanton Newman
• Extended report: Outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus: an 11-year nationwide cohort study (18 August, 2015)

  Chao-Han Lai, Wu-Wei Lai, Meng-Jiun Chiou, Wei-Chieh Lin, Yu-Jen Yang, Chung-Yi Li, Liang-Miin Tsai
• Concise report: Elevated calprotectin levels reveal bowel inflammation in spondyloarthritis (23 December, 2015)

  H Cypers, G Varkas, S Beeckman, K Debusschere, T Vogl, J Roth, M B Drennan, M Lavric, D Foell, C A Cuvelier, M De Vos, J Delanghe, F Van den Bosch, D Elewaut
• Concise report: Hyperuricaemia: contributions of urate transporter ABCG2 and the fractional renal clearance of urate (1 December, 2015)

  Diluk R W Kannangara, Amanda J Phipps-Green, Nicola Dalbeth, Lisa K Stamp, Kenneth M Williams, Garry G Graham, Richard O Day, Tony R Merriman
• CONCISE REPORT: Transitions to different patterns of interstitial lung disease in scleroderma with and without treatment (12 January, 2016)

  Hyun J Kim, Donald P Tashkin, David W Gjertson, Matthew S Brown, Eric Kleerup, Semin Chong, John A Belperio, Michael D Roth, Fereidoun Abtin, Robert Elashoff, Chi-Hong Tseng, Dinesh Khanna, Jonathan G Goldin