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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Tofacitinib in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a phase II, 16-week, randomised, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging study (27 January, 2017)

  Désirée van der Heijde, Atul Deodhar, James C Wei, Edit Drescher, Dona Fleishaker, Thijs Hendrikx, David Li, Sujatha Menon, Keith S Kanik
• Extended report: Clinical benefit of 1-year certolizumab pegol (CZP) add-on therapy to methotrexate treatment in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis was observed following CZP discontinuation: 2-year results of the C-OPERA study, a phase III randomised trial (2 February, 2017)

  Tatsuya Atsumi, Yoshiya Tanaka, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Hisashi Yamanaka, Naoki Ishiguro, Katsumi Eguchi, Akira Watanabe, Hideki Origasa, Shinsuke Yasuda, Yuji Yamanishi, Yasuhiko Kita, Tsukasa Matsubara, Masahiro Iwamoto, Toshiharu Shoji, Osamu Togo, Toshiyuki Okada, Désirée van der Heijde, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Takao Koike
• Extended report: Long-term dietary quality and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis in women (30 January, 2017)

  Yang Hu, Jeffrey A Sparks, Susan Malspeis, Karen H Costenbader, Frank B Hu, Elizabeth W Karlson, Bing Lu
• Extended report: Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (16 February, 2017)

  Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Stein Emil Vollset, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Farah Daoud, Ashkan Afshin, Raghid Charara, Ibrahim Khalil, Hideki Higashi, Mohamed Magdy Abd El Razek, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Khurshid Alam, Nadia Akseer, Nawal Al-Hamad, Raghib Ali, Mohammad AbdulAziz AlMazroa, Mahmoud A Alomari, Abdullah A Al-Rabeeah, Ubai Alsharif, Khalid A Altirkawi, Suleman Atique, Alaa Badawi, Lope H Barrero, Mohammed Basulaiman, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Isabela M Bensenor, Rachelle Buchbinder, Hadi Danawi, Samath D Dharmaratne, Faiez Zannad, Maryam S Farvid, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Farshad Farzadfar, Florian Fischer, Rahul Gupta, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Masako Horino, Damian G Hoy, Mohamed Hsairi, Abdullatif Husseini, Mehdi Javanbakht, Jost B Jonas, Amir Kasaeian, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Jagdish Khubchandani, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Jacek A Kopec, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Kedar Mate, Alem Mehari, Michele Meltzer, Ziad A Memish, Mojde Mirarefin, Shafiu Mohammed, Aliya Naheed, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, In-Hwan Oh, Eun-Kee Park, Emmanuel Kwame Peprah, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rahman Shiri, Sajjad Ur Rahman, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Saleem M Rana, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Ivy Shiue, Abla Mehio Sibai, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jasvinder A Singh, Jens Christoffer Skogen, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Kingsley N Ukwaja, Ronny Westerman, Naohiro Yonemoto, Seok-Jun Yoon, Mustafa Z Younis, Zoubida Zaidi, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Stephen S Lim, Haidong Wang, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Alan D Lopez, Christopher J L Murray, Ali H Mokdad
• Extended report: Development and validation of a patient-reported outcome instrument for skin involvement in patients with systemic sclerosis (17 February, 2017)

  Ada Man, Jeannette K Correa, Jessica Ziemek, Robert W Simms, David T Felson, Robert Lafyatis
• Extended report: How common is clinically inactive disease in a prospective cohort of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis? The importance of definition (7 April, 2017)

  Stephanie J W Shoop-Worrall, Suzanne M M Verstappen, Eileen Baildam, Alice Chieng, Joyce Davidson, Helen Foster, Yiannis Ioannou, Flora McErlane, Lucy R Wedderburn, Wendy Thomson, Kimme L Hyrich
• Extended report: Anti-TNF-induced remission in very early peripheral spondyloarthritis: the CRESPA study (17 February, 2017)

  Philippe Carron, Gaëlle Varkas, Heleen Cypers, Liesbet Van Praet, Dirk Elewaut, Filip Van den Bosch
• Extended report: Incident myocardial infarction associated with major types of arthritis in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis (20 February, 2017)

  Orit Schieir, Cedomir Tosevski, Richard H Glazier, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Elizabeth M Badley
• Extended report:

  Increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis among mothers with children who carry DRB1 risk-associated alleles

  (8 April, 2017)

  Giovanna Ibeth Cruz, Xiaorong Shao, Hong Quach, Kimberly A Ho, Kirsten Sterba, Janelle A Noble, Nikolaos A Patsopoulos, Michael P Busch, Darrell J Triulzi, Wendy SW Wong, Benjamin D Solomon, John E Niederhuber, Lindsey A Criswell, Lisa F Barcellos
• Extended report: Dietary intake of fibre and risk of knee osteoarthritis in two US prospective cohorts (23 May, 2017)

  Zhaoli Dai, Jingbo Niu, Yuqing Zhang, Paul Jacques, David T Felson
• Extended report: Prevalence of remission and its effect on damage and quality of life in Chinese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (21 April, 2017)

  Chi Chiu Mok, Ling Yin Ho, Sau Mei Tse, Kar Li Chan
• Concise report: A nationwide non-medical switch from originator infliximab to biosimilar CT-P13 in 802 patients with inflammatory arthritis: 1-year clinical outcomes from the DANBIO registry (4 May, 2017)

  Bente Glintborg, Inge Juul Sørensen, Anne Gitte Loft, Hanne Lindegaard, Asta Linauskas, Oliver Hendricks, Inger Marie Jensen Hansen, Dorte Vendelbo Jensen, Natalia Manilo, Jakob Espesen, Mette Klarlund, Jolanta Grydehøj, Sabine Sparre Dieperink, Salome Kristensen, Jimmi Sloth Olsen, Henrik Nordin, Stavros Chrysidis, Dorte Dalsgaard Pedersen, Michael Veedfald Sørensen, Lis Smedegaard Andersen, Kathrine Lederballe Grøn, Niels Steen Krogh, Lars Pedersen, Merete Lund Hetland
• Concise report: Long-term outcome is better when a methotrexate-based treatment strategy is combined with 10 mg prednisone daily: follow-up after the second Computer-Assisted Management in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis trial (27 April, 2017)

  M Safy, JWG Jacobs, ND IJff, JWJ Bijlsma, JM van Laar, MJH de Hair
• Concise report: A randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell for lupus nephritis (6 May, 2017)

  DanQi Deng, Peilian Zhang, Yun Guo, Teck Onn Lim