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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Detection of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs): a multicentre European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS) evaluation of the value of indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) versus antigen-specific immunoassays (1 August, 2016)

  Jan Damoiseaux, Elena Csernok, Niels Rasmussen, Frank Moosig, Pieter van Paassen, Bo Baslund, Pieter Vermeersch, Daniel Blockmans, Jan-Willem Cohen Tervaert, Xavier Bossuyt
• Extended report: Relationship between exposure to tumour necrosis factor inhibitor therapy and incidence and severity of myocardial infarction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (10 January, 2017)

  Audrey S L Low, Deborah P M Symmons, Mark Lunt, Louise K Mercer, Chris P Gale, Kath D Watson, William G Dixon, Kimme L Hyrich
• Extended report: Incidence of autoimmune diseases in a nationwide HIV/AIDS patient cohort in Taiwan, 2000–2012 (2 September, 2016)

  Yung-Feng Yen, Pei-Hung Chuang, I-An Jen, Marcelo Chen, Yu-Ching Lan, Yen-Ling Liu, Yun Lee, Yen-Hsu Chen, Yi-Ming Arthur Chen
• Extended report: Intramuscular versus ultrasound-guided intratenosynovial glucocorticoid injection for tenosynovitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised, double-blind, controlled study (7 September, 2016)

  Mads Ammitzbøll-Danielsen, Mikkel Østergaard, Viktoria Fana, Daniel Glinatsi, Uffe Møller Døhn, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Esperanza Naredo, Lene Terslev
• Extended report: International patient and physician consensus on a psoriatic arthritis core outcome set for clinical trials (9 September, 2016)

  Ana-Maria Orbai, Maarten de Wit, Philip Mease, Judy A Shea, Laure Gossec, Ying Ying Leung, William Tillett, Musaab Elmamoun, Kristina Callis Duffin, Willemina Campbell, Robin Christensen, Laura Coates, Emma Dures, Lihi Eder, Oliver FitzGerald, Dafna Gladman, Niti Goel, Suzanne Dolwick Grieb, Sarah Hewlett, Pil Hoejgaard, Umut Kalyoncu, Chris Lindsay, Neil McHugh, Bev Shea, Ingrid Steinkoenig, Vibeke Strand, Alexis Ogdie
• Extended report: Thigh muscle MRI in immune-mediated necrotising myopathy: extensive oedema, early muscle damage and role of anti-SRP autoantibodies as a marker of severity (20 September, 2016)

  Iago Pinal-Fernandez, Maria Casal-Dominguez, John A Carrino, Arash H Lahouti, Pari Basharat, Jemima Albayda, Julie J Paik, Shivani Ahlawat, Sonye K Danoff, Thomas E Lloyd, Andrew L Mammen, Lisa Christopher-Stine
• Extended report: Effects of bariatric surgery on gout incidence in the Swedish Obese Subjects study: a non-randomised, prospective, controlled intervention trial (8 October, 2016)

  Cristina Maglio, Markku Peltonen, Martin Neovius, Peter Jacobson, Lennart Jacobsson, Anna Rudin, Lena M S Carlsson
• Extended report: Patient-reported outcomes from a randomised phase III study of baricitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to biological agents (RA-BEACON) (31 October, 2016)

  Josef S Smolen, Joel M Kremer, Carol L Gaich, Amy M DeLozier, Douglas E Schlichting, Li Xie, Ivaylo Stoykov, Terence Rooney, Paul Bird, Juan Miguel Sánchez Bursón, Mark C Genovese, Bernard Combe
• Extended report: Axial Disease in Psoriatic Arthritis study: defining the clinical and radiographic phenotype of psoriatic spondyloarthritis (2 December, 2016)

  Deepak R Jadon, Raj Sengupta, Alison Nightingale, Mark Lindsay, Eleanor Korendowych, Graham Robinson, Amelia Jobling, Gavin Shaddick, Jing Bi, Robert Winchester, Jon T Giles, Neil J McHugh
• Concise report: Discordance between tender and swollen joint count as well as patient's and evaluator's global assessment may reduce likelihood of remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis: data from the prospective multicentre NOR-DMARD study (4 October, 2016)

  Brigitte Michelsen, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Hilde Berner Hammer, Karen Minde Fagerli, Elisabeth Lie, Ada Wierød, Synøve Kalstad, Erik Rødevand, Frode Krøll, Glenn Haugeberg, Tore K Kvien
• Concise report: Social media use among young rheumatologists and basic scientists: results of an international survey by the Emerging EULAR Network (EMEUNET) (24 October, 2016)

  Elena Nikiphorou, Paul Studenic, Christian Gytz Ammitzbøll, Mary Canavan, Meghna Jani, Caroline Ospelt, Francis Berenbaum
• Concise report: Rheumatoid arthritis phenotype at presentation differs depending on the number of autoantibodies present (9 November, 2016)

  V F A M Derksen, S Ajeganova, L A Trouw, A H M van der Helm-van Mil, I Hafström, T W J Huizinga, R E M Toes, B Svensson, D van der Woude