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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Seven-year tolerability profile of glucocorticoids use in early rheumatoid arthritis: data from the ESPOIR cohort (17 February, 2017) Free

  Camille Roubille, Nathalie Rincheval, Maxime Dougados, René-Marc Flipo, Jean-Pierre Daurès, Bernard Combe
• Extended report:

  Infections and respiratory tract disease as risk factors for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: a population-based case–control study

  (30 August, 2017)

  John Svensson, Marie Holmqvist, Ingrid E Lundberg, Elizabeth V Arkema
• Extended report: Juvenile onset arthritis and pregnancy outcome: a population-based cohort study (29 June, 2017)

  Katarina Remaeus, Kari Johansson, Johan Askling, Olof Stephansson
• Extended report: Persons with chronic widespread pain experience excess mortality: longitudinal results from UK Biobank and meta-analysis (21 July, 2017)

  Gary J Macfarlane, Maxwell S Barnish, Gareth T Jones
• Extended report: Sacroiliac radiographic progression in recent onset axial spondyloarthritis: the 5-year data of the DESIR cohort (6 July, 2017)

  Maxime Dougados, Alexandre Sepriano, Anna Molto, Miranda van Lunteren, Sofia Ramiro, Manouk de Hooge, Rosaline van den Berg, Victoria Navarro Compan, Christophe Demattei, Robert Landewé, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Predicting and managing primary and secondary non-response to rituximab using B-cell biomarkers in systemic lupus erythematosus (6 July, 2017)

  Md Yuzaiful Md Yusof, Daniel Shaw, Yasser M El-Sherbiny, Emma Dunn, Andy C Rawstron, Paul Emery, Edward M Vital
• Extended report: Repeated administration of dapirolizumab pegol in a randomised phase I study is well tolerated and accompanied by improvements in several composite measures of systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity and changes in whole blood transcriptomic profiles (5 August, 2017)

  Chris Chamberlain, Peter J Colman, Ann M Ranger, Linda C Burkly, Geoffrey I Johnston, Christian Otoul, Christian Stach, Miren Zamacona, Thomas Dörner, Murray Urowitz, Falk Hiepe
• Extended report: Oral contraceptives, breastfeeding and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Swedish EIRA study (17 August, 2017)

  Cecilia Orellana, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Lars Klareskog, Elizabeth W Karlson, Lars Alfredsson, Camilla Bengtsson
• Extended report: Patient-reported outcomes from a phase 3 study of baricitinib versus placebo or adalimumab in rheumatoid arthritis: secondary analyses from the RA-BEAM study (10 August, 2017)

  Edward C Keystone, Peter C Taylor, Yoshiya Tanaka, Carol Gaich, Amy M DeLozier, Anna Dudek, Jorge Velasco Zamora, Jose Arturo Covarrubias Cobos, Terence Rooney, Stephanie de Bono, Vipin Arora, Bruno Linetzky, Michael E Weinblatt
• Extended report: Subgroup analyses of the effectiveness of oral glucosamine for knee and hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis from the OA trial bank (28 July, 2017)

  Jos Runhaar, Rianne M Rozendaal, Marienke van Middelkoop, Hans J W Bijlsma, Michael Doherty, Krysia S Dziedzic, L Stefan Lohmander, Timothy McAlindon, Weiya Zhang, Sita Bierma Zeinstra
• Extended report: Weight loss for overweight and obese individuals with gout: a systematic review of longitudinal studies (2 September, 2017)

  Sabrina M Nielsen, Else M Bartels, Marius Henriksen, Eva E Wæhrens, Henrik Gudbergsen, Henning Bliddal, Arne Astrup, Filip K Knop, Loreto Carmona, William J Taylor, Jasvinder A Singh, Fernando Perez-Ruiz, Lars E Kristensen, Robin Christensen
• Extended report: Ultrasonography of major salivary glands compared with parotid and labial gland biopsy and classification criteria in patients with clinically suspected primary Sjögren’s syndrome (28 July, 2017)

  Esther Mossel, Konstantina Delli, Jolien F van Nimwegen, Alja J Stel, Frans G M Kroese, Fred K L Spijkervet, Arjan Vissink, Suzanne Arends, Hendrika Bootsma
• Extended report: Minimal to no transfer of certolizumab pegol into breast milk: results from CRADLE, a prospective, postmarketing, multicentre, pharmacokinetic study (16 August, 2017)

  Megan EB Clowse, Frauke Förger, Caroline Hwang, John Thorp, Radboud JEM Dolhain, Astrid van Tubergen, Laura Shaughnessy, Jeff Simpson, Marie Teil, Nathalie Toublanc, Maggie Wang, Thomas W Hale
• Extended report: Mapping and predicting mortality from systemic sclerosis (23 August, 2017)

  Muriel Elhai, Christophe Meune, Marouane Boubaya, Jérôme Avouac, Eric Hachulla, Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Gabriela Riemekasten, Paolo Airò, Beatriz Joven, Serena Vettori, Franco Cozzi, Susanne Ullman, László Czirják, Mohammed Tikly, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Paola Caramaschi, Oliver Distler, Florenzo Iannone, Lidia P Ananieva, Roger Hesselstrand, Radim Becvar, Armando Gabrielli, Nemanja Damjanov, Maria J Salvador, Valeria Riccieri, Carina Mihai, Gabriella Szücs, Ulrich A Walker, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Duska Martinovic, Vanessa Smith, Carolina de Souza Müller, Carlo Maurizio Montecucco, Daniela Opris, Francesca Ingegnoli, Panayiotis G Vlachoyiannopoulos, Bojana Stamenkovic, Edoardo Rosato, Stefan Heitmann, Jörg H W Distler, Thierry Zenone, Matthias Seidel, Alessandra Vacca, Ellen De Langhe, Srdan Novak, Maurizio Cutolo, Luc Mouthon, Jörg Henes, Carlo Chizzolini, Carlos Alberto von Mühlen, Kamal Solanki, Simona Rednic, Lisa Stamp, Branimir Anic, Vera Ortiz Santamaria, Maria De Santis, Sule Yavuz, Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo, Emmanuel Chatelus, Jiri Stork, Jacob van Laar, Esthela Loyo, Paloma García de la Peña Lefebvre, Kilian Eyerich, Vanesa Cosentino, Juan Jose Alegre-Sancho, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka, Grégoire Rey, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Yannick Allanore
• Concise report: Do depression and anxiety reduce the likelihood of remission in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis? Data from the prospective multicentre NOR-DMARD study (21 July, 2017)

  Brigitte Michelsen, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Joseph Sexton, Hilde Berner Hammer, Karen Minde Fagerli, Elisabeth Lie, Ada Wierød, Synøve Kalstad, Erik Rødevand, Frode Krøll, Glenn Haugeberg, Tore K Kvien
• Concise report: Role of erosions typical of rheumatoid arthritis in the 2010 ACR/EULAR rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: results from a very early arthritis cohort (10 August, 2017)

  Gina Hetland Brinkmann, Ellen S Norli, Pernille Bøyesen, Désirée van der Heijde, Lars Grøvle, Anne J Haugen, Halvor Nygaard, Olav Bjørneboe, Cathrine Thunem, Tore K Kvien, Maria D Mjaavatten, Elisabeth Lie