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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Acute coronary syndrome in new-onset rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based nationwide cohort study of time trends in risks and excess risks (14 July, 2017)

  Marie Holmqvist, Lotta Ljung, Johan Askling
• Extended report: ADA2 deficiency (DADA2) as an unrecognised cause of early onset polyarteritis nodosa and stroke: a multicentre national study (18 May, 2017)

  Roberta Caorsi, Federica Penco, Alice Grossi, Antonella Insalaco, Alessia Omenetti, Maria Alessio, Giovanni Conti, Federico Marchetti, Paolo Picco, Alberto Tommasini, Silvana Martino, Clara Malattia, Romina Gallizi, Rosa Anna Podda, Annalisa Salis, Fernanda Falcini, Francesca Schena, Francesca Garbarino, Alessia Morreale, Manuela Pardeo, Claudia Ventrici, Chiara Passarelli, Qing Zhou, Mariasavina Severino, Carlo Gandolfo, Gianluca Damonte, Alberto Martini, Angelo Ravelli, Ivona Aksentijevich, Isabella Ceccherini, Marco Gattorno
• Extended report: Knee extensor strength and body weight in adolescent men and the risk of knee osteoarthritis by middle age (9 May, 2017)

  Aleksandra Turkiewicz, Simon Timpka, Jonas Bloch Thorlund, Eva Ageberg, Martin Englund
• Extended report: Randomised controlled trial of prolonged treatment in the remission phase of ANCA-associated vasculitis (25 May, 2017)

  Alexandre Karras, Christian Pagnoux, Marion Haubitz, Kirsten de Groot, Xavier Puechal, Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert, Mårten Segelmark, Loic Guillevin, David Jayne
• Extended report: Comparative effectiveness of allopurinol versus febuxostat for preventing incident renal disease in older adults: an analysis of Medicare claims data (5 June, 2017)

  Jasvinder A Singh, John D Cleveland
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of the biosimilar ABP 501 compared with adalimumab in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind, phase III equivalence study (5 June, 2017)

  Stanley Cohen, Mark C Genovese, Ernest Choy, Fernando Perez-Ruiz, Alan Matsumoto, Karel Pavelka, Jose L Pablos, Warren Rizzo, Pawel Hrycaj, Nan Zhang, William Shergy, Primal Kaur
• Extended report: The dynamics of response as measured by multiple composite outcome tools in the TIght COntrol of inflammation in early Psoriatic Arthritis (TICOPA) trial (12 June, 2017)

  Laura C Coates, Farrouq Mahmood, Paul Emery, Philip G Conaghan, Philip S Helliwell
• Extended report: Low disease activity (DAS28≤3.2) reduces the risk of first cardiovascular event in rheumatoid arthritis: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis in a large cohort study (12 June, 2017)

  Elke EA Arts, Jaap Fransen, Alfons A Den Broeder, Piet L C M van Riel, Calin D Popa
• Extended report: A population-based cohort study of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: comorbidity and mortality (13 June, 2017)

  Charlotte Hyldgaard, Ole Hilberg, Alma Becic Pedersen, Sinna Pilgaard Ulrichsen, Anders Løkke, Elisabeth Bendstrup, Torkell Ellingsen
• Extended report: Magnetic resonance imaging assessed inflammation in the wrist is associated with patient-reported physical impairment, global assessment of disease activity and pain in early rheumatoid arthritis: longitudinal results from two randomised controlled trials (13 June, 2017) Free

  Daniel Glinatsi, Joshua F Baker, Merete L Hetland, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, Bo J Ejbjerg, Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen, Peter Junker, Torkell Ellingsen, Hanne M Lindegaard, Ib Hansen, Tine Lottenburger, Jakob M Møller, Lykke Ørnbjerg, Aage Vestergaard, Anne Grethe Jurik, Henrik S Thomsen, Trine Torfing, Signe Møller-Bisgaard, Mette B Axelsen, Mikkel Østergaard
• Extended report: Long-term outcomes after disease activity-guided dose reduction of TNF inhibition in rheumatoid arthritis: 3-year data of the DRESS study - a randomised controlled pragmatic non-inferiority strategy trial (12 June, 2017)

  Chantal AM Bouman, Noortje van Herwaarden, Frank HJ van den Hoogen, Jaap Fransen, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Johannes WJ Bijlsma, Aatke van der Maas, Alfons A den Broeder
• Extended report: Pattern of risks of systemic lupus erythematosus among statin users: a population-based cohort study (6 July, 2017)

  Hilda J I De Jong, Tjeerd P van Staa, Arief Lalmohamed, Frank de Vries, Rob J Vandebriel, Henk Van Loveren, Olaf H Klungel, Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert
• Extended report: The yield of a positive MRI of the spine as imaging criterion in the ASAS classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis: results from the SPACE and DESIR cohorts (29 June, 2017)

  Zineb Ez-Zaitouni, Pauline AC Bakker, Miranda van Lunteren, Manouk de Hooge, Rosaline van den Berg, Monique Reijnierse, Karen Minde Fagerli, Robert BM Landewé, Roberta Ramonda, Lennart TH Jacobsson, Alain Saraux, Gregory Lenczner, Antoine Feydy, Jean Baptiste Pialat, Fabrice Thévenin, Floris A van Gaalen, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Survival benefit of statin use in ankylosing spondylitis: a general population-based cohort study (11 July, 2017)

  Amar Oza, Na Lu, Sara R Schoenfeld, Mark C Fisher, Maureen Dubreuil, Sharan K Rai, Yuqing Zhang, Hyon K Choi
• Concise report: Obesity and rates of clinical remission and low MRI inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (12 June, 2017)

  Michael D George, Mikkel Østergaard, Philip G Conaghan, Paul Emery, Daniel G Baker, Joshua F Baker
• Concise report: Rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica occurring after immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment (9 June, 2017)

  Rakiba Belkhir, Sébastien Le Burel, Laetitia Dunogeant, Aurélien Marabelle, Antoine Hollebecque, Benjamin Besse, Alexandra Leary, Anne-Laure Voisin, Clémence Pontoizeau, Laetitia Coutte, Edouard Pertuiset, Gaël Mouterde, Olivier Fain, Olivier Lambotte, Xavier Mariette
• Concise report: Differences in the symptomatic phase preceding ACPA-positive and ACPA-negative RA: a longitudinal study in arthralgia during progression to clinical arthritis (12 June, 2017)

  Leonie E Burgers, Hanna W van Steenbergen, Robin M ten Brinck, Tom WJ Huizinga, Annette HM van der Helm-van Mil