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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Carbamylation of vimentin is inducible by smoking and represents an independent autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis (9 February, 2017)

  Caroline Ospelt, Holger Bang, Eugen Feist, Giovanni Camici, Stephan Keller, Jacqueline Detert, Anette Krämer, Steffen Gay, Khetam Ghannam, Gerd R Burmester
• Extended report: Presence of anticitrullinated protein antibodies in a large population-based cohort from the Netherlands (2 January, 2017)

  A van Zanten, S Arends, C Roozendaal, P C Limburg, F Maas, L A Trouw, R E M Toes, T W J Huizinga, H Bootsma, E Brouwer
• Extended report:

  A new autoinflammatory and autoimmune syndrome associated with NLRP1 mutations: NAIAD (NLRP1-associated autoinflammation with arthritis and dyskeratosis)

  (13 December, 2016)

  Sylvie Grandemange, Elodie Sanchez, Pascale Louis-Plence, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Didier Bessis, Christine Coubes, Eric Frouin, Marieke Seyger, Manon Girard, Jacques Puechberty, Valérie Costes, Michel Rodière, Aurélia Carbasse, Eric Jeziorski, Pierre Portales, Guillaume Sarrabay, Michel Mondain, Christian Jorgensen, Florence Apparailly, Esther Hoppenreijs, Isabelle Touitou, David Geneviève
• Extended report: Radiographic endophenotyping in hip osteoarthritis improves the precision of genetic association analysis (14 December, 2016)

  Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Shankar Thiagarajah, Eleni Zengini, Aaron G Day-Williams, Yolande FM Ramos, Jennifer MTA Meessen, Kasper Huetink, Rob GHH Nelissen, Lorraine Southam, N William Rayner, arcOGEN Consortium, Michael Doherty, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Eleftheria Zeggini, J Mark Wilkinson
• Extended report: Treatment outcome in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis: the European Scleroderma Observational Study (ESOS) (10 February, 2017)

  Ariane L Herrick, Xiaoyan Pan, Sébastien Peytrignet, Mark Lunt, Roger Hesselstrand, Luc Mouthon, Alan Silman, Edith Brown, László Czirják, Jörg H W Distler, Oliver Distler, Kim Fligelstone, William J Gregory, Rachel Ochiel, Madelon Vonk, Codrina Ancuţa, Voon H Ong, Dominique Farge, Marie Hudson, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Øyvind Midtvedt, Alison C Jordan, Paresh Jobanputra, Wendy Stevens, Pia Moinzadeh, Frances C Hall, Christian Agard, Marina E Anderson, Elisabeth Diot, Rajan Madhok, Mohammed Akil, Maya H Buch, Lorinda Chung, Nemanja Damjanov, Harsha Gunawardena, Peter Lanyon, Yasmeen Ahmad, Kuntal Chakravarty, Søren Jacobsen, Alexander J MacGregor, Neil McHugh, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Gabriela Riemekasten, Michael Becker, Janet Roddy, Patricia E Carreira, Anne Laure Fauchais, Eric Hachulla, Jennifer Hamilton, Murat İnanç, John S McLaren, Jacob M van Laar, Sanjay Pathare, Susannah Proudman, Anna Rudin, Joanne Sahhar, Brigitte Coppere, Christine Serratrice, Tom Sheeran, Douglas J Veale, Claire Grange, Georges-Selim Trad, Christopher P Denton
• Extended report: Initial combination therapy with ambrisentan and tadalafil in connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (CTD-PAH): subgroup analysis from the AMBITION trial (30 December, 2016)

  John Gerry Coghlan, Nazzareno Galiè, Joan Albert Barberà, Adaani E Frost, Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani, Marius M Hoeper, Masataka Kuwana, Vallerie V McLaughlin, Andrew J Peacock, Gérald Simonneau, Jean-Luc Vachiéry, Christiana Blair, Hunter Gillies, Karen L Miller, Julia H N Harris, Jonathan Langley, Lewis J Rubin,
• Extended report: Synovial features of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis in clinical and ultrasound remission differ under anti-TNF therapy: a clue to interpret different chances of relapse after clinical remission? (24 January, 2017)

  Stefano Alivernini, Barbara Tolusso, Luca Petricca, Laura Bui, Gabriele Di Sante, Giusy Peluso, Roberta Benvenuto, Anna Laura Fedele, Franco Federico, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Elisa Gremese
• Extended report: Increased prevalence of coronary plaque in patients with psoriatic arthritis without prior diagnosis of coronary artery disease (4 January, 2017)

  Jiayun Shen, Ka-Tak Wong, Isaac T Cheng, Qing Shang, Edmund K Li, Priscilla Wong, Emily W Kun, Mei Yan Law, Ronald Yip, Isaac Yim, Shirley Ying, Martin Li, Tena K Li, Chun-Kwok Wong, Tracy Y Zhu, Jack Jock-Wai Lee, Mimi Chang, Alex Pui-Wai Lee, Lai-Shan Tam
• Extended report: Predictors of work disability after start of anti-TNF therapy in a national cohort of Swedish patients with rheumatoid arthritis: does early anti-TNF therapy bring patients back to work? (10 January, 2017)

  T Olofsson, I F Petersson, J K Eriksson, M Englund, J A Nilsson, P Geborek, L T H Jacobsson, J Askling, M Neovius
• Extended report: Long-term safety of tofacitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis up to 8.5 years: integrated analysis of data from the global clinical trials (31 January, 2017)

  Stanley B Cohen, Yoshiya Tanaka, Xavier Mariette, Jeffrey R Curtis, Eun Bong Lee, Peter Nash, Kevin L Winthrop, Christina Charles-Schoeman, Krishan Thirunavukkarasu, Ryan DeMasi, Jamie Geier, Kenneth Kwok, Lisy Wang, Richard Riese, Jürgen Wollenhaupt
• Extended report: Cardiovascular risk of patients with gout seen at rheumatology clinics following a structured assessment (16 January, 2017)

  Mariano Andrés, José Antonio Bernal, Francisca Sivera, Neus Quilis, Loreto Carmona, Paloma Vela, Eliseo Pascual
• Extended report: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for spinal pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2 February, 2017)

  Gustavo C Machado, Chris G Maher, Paulo H Ferreira, Richard O Day, Marina B Pinheiro, Manuela L Ferreira
• Concise report: Tocilizumab combination therapy or monotherapy or methotrexate monotherapy in methotrexate-naive patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: 2-year clinical and radiographic results from the randomised, placebo-controlled FUNCTION trial (7 April, 2017)

  Gerd R Burmester, William F Rigby, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Jonathan Kay, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Ricardo Blanco, Alysha Kadva, Sophie Dimonaco
• Concise report: Infusion reactions during infliximab treatment are not associated with IgE anti-infliximab antibodies (28 April, 2017)

  Karin A van Schie, Pleuni Ooijevaar-De Heer, Simone Kruithof, Chamaida Plasencia, Teresa Jurado, Dora Pascual Salcedo, Johannan F Brandse, Geert RAM d'Haens, Gerrit Jan Wolbink, Theo Rispens
• Extended report: The unclosing premature mortality gap in gout: a general population-based study (25 January, 2017)

  Mark C Fisher, Sharan K Rai, Na Lu, Yuqing Zhang, Hyon K Choi