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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Concise report: Patients with seronegative RA have more inflammatory activity compared with patients with seropositive RA in an inception cohort of DMARD-naïve patients classified according to the 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria (10 January, 2017) Free

  Lena Bugge Nordberg, Siri Lillegraven, Elisabeth Lie, Anna-Birgitte Aga, Inge Christoffer Olsen, Hilde Berner Hammer, Till Uhlig, Maria Karolina Jonsson, Désirée van der Heijde, Tore K Kvien, Espen Andre Haavardsholm
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of switching from reference infliximab to CT-P13 compared with maintenance of CT-P13 in ankylosing spondylitis: 102-week data from the PLANETAS extension study (10 January, 2017)

  Won Park, Dae Hyun Yoo, Pedro Miranda, Marek Brzosko, Piotr Wiland, Sergio Gutierrez-Ureña, Helena Mikazane, Yeon-Ah Lee, Svitlana Smiyan, Mie-Jin Lim, Vladimir Kadinov, Carlos Abud-Mendoza, HoUng Kim, Sang Joon Lee, YunJu Bae, SuYeon Kim, Jürgen Braun
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of CT-P13 (biosimilar infliximab) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: comparison between switching from reference infliximab to CT-P13 and continuing CT-P13 in the PLANETRA extension study (10 January, 2017)

  Dae Hyun Yoo, Nenad Prodanovic, Janusz Jaworski, Pedro Miranda, Edgar Ramiterre, Allan Lanzon, Asta Baranauskaite, Piotr Wiland, Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Boycho Oparanov, Svitlana Smiyan, HoUng Kim, Sang Joon Lee, SuYeon Kim, Won Park
• Extended report: Is ankylosing spondylitis a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and how do these risks compare with those in rheumatoid arthritis? (10 January, 2017)

  Jonas K Eriksson, Lennart Jacobsson, Karin Bengtsson, Johan Askling
• Extended report: Disease activity is associated with reduced left ventricular systolic myocardial function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (10 January, 2017)

  Helga Midtbø, Anne Grete Semb, Knut Matre, Tore K Kvien, Eva Gerdts
• Extended report: Lesional CD4⁺ IFN-γ⁺ cytotoxic T lymphocytes in IgG4-related dacryoadenitis and sialoadenitis (10 January, 2017)

  Takashi Maehara, Hamid Mattoo, Miho Ohta, Vinay S Mahajan, Masafumi Moriyama, Masaki Yamauchi, Jefte Drijvers, Seiji Nakamura, John H Stone, Shiv S Pillai
• Extended report: Risk of invasive melanoma in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with biologics: results from a collaborative project of 11 European biologic registers (10 January, 2017)

  Louise K Mercer, Johan Askling, Pauline Raaschou, William G Dixon, Lene Dreyer, Merete Lund Hetland, Anja Strangfeld, Angela Zink, Xavier Mariette, Axel Finckh, Helena Canhao, Florenzo Iannone, Jakub Zavada, Jacques Morel, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Kimme L Hyrich, Joachim Listing
• Extended report: Can we use structural lesions seen on MRI of the sacroiliac joints reliably for the classification of patients according to the ASAS axial spondyloarthritis criteria? Data from the DESIR cohort (10 January, 2017)

  Pauline A C Bakker, Rosaline van den Berg, Gregory Lenczner, Fabrice Thévenin, Monique Reijnierse, Pascal Claudepierre, Daniel Wendling, Maxime Dougados, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Antimodified protein antibody response pattern influences the risk for disease relapse in patients with rheumatoid arthritis tapering disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (10 January, 2017)

  Camille P Figueiredo, Holger Bang, Jayme Fogagnolo Cobra, Matthias Englbrecht, Axel J Hueber, Judith Haschka, Bernhard Manger, Arnd Kleyer, Michaela Reiser, Stephanie Finzel, Hans-Peter Tony, Stefan Kleinert, Joerg Wendler, Florian Schuch, Monika Ronneberger, Martin Feuchtenberger, Martin Fleck, Karin Manger, Wolfgang Ochs, Matthias Schmitt-Haendle, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Hubert Nuesslein, Rieke Alten, Joerg Henes, Klaus Krueger, Jürgen Rech, Georg Schett
• Extended report: Improved survival in rheumatoid arthritis: a general population-based cohort study (10 January, 2017)

  Yuqing Zhang, Na Lu, Christine Peloquin, Maureen Dubreuil, Tuhina Neogi, J Antonio Aviña-Zubieta, Sharan K Rai, Hyon K Choi
• Concise report: Adalimumab long-term safety: infections, vaccination response and pregnancy outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (10 January, 2017)

  Gerd R Burmester, Robert Landewé, Mark C Genovese, Alan W Friedman, Nathan D Pfeifer, Nupun A Varothai, Ana P Lacerda
• Concise report: Disease activity states of the DAPSA, a psoriatic arthritis specific instrument, are valid against functional status and structural progression (10 January, 2017)

  D Aletaha, F Alasti, JS Smolen
• Concise report: Riociguat for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with connective tissue disease: results from PATENT-1 and PATENT-2 (10 January, 2017)

  Marc Humbert, J Gerry Coghlan, Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani, Friedrich Grimminger, Jian-Guo He, Gabriela Riemekasten, Carmine Dario Vizza, Annette Boeckenhoff, Christian Meier, Janethe de Oliveira Pena, Christopher P Denton