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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Societal costs and patients' experience of health inequities before and after diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis: a Danish cohort study (30 January, 2017) Free

  Lars Erik Kristensen, Tanja S Jørgensen, Robin Christensen, Henrik Gudbergsen, Lene Dreyer, Christine Ballegaard, Lennart T H Jacobsson, Vibeke Strand, Philip J Mease, Jakob Kjellberg
• Extended report: Comparison of MRI with radiography for detecting structural lesions of the sacroiliac joint using CT as standard of reference: results from the SIMACT study (10 March, 2017)

  Torsten Diekhoff, Kay-Geert A Hermann, Juliane Greese, Carsten Schwenke, Denis Poddubnyy, Bernd Hamm, Joachim Sieper
• Extended report: Quantifying the hepatotoxic risk of alcohol consumption in patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking methotrexate (23 March, 2017)

  Jenny H Humphreys, Alexander Warner, Ruth Costello, Mark Lunt, Suzanne M M Verstappen, William G Dixon
• Extended report: Tumour necrosis factor inhibitor treatment and occurrence of anterior uveitis in ankylosing spondylitis: results from the Swedish biologics register (2 March, 2017)

  Elisabeth Lie, Ulf Lindström, Tatiana Zverkova-Sandström, Inge C Olsen, Helena Forsblad-d'Elia, Johan Askling, Meliha C Kapetanovic, Lars Erik Kristensen, Lennart T H Jacobsson
• Extended report: A randomised controlled trial of the efficacy and safety of allopurinol dose escalation to achieve target serum urate in people with gout (17 March, 2017)

  Lisa K Stamp, Peter T Chapman, Murray L Barclay, Anne Horne, Christopher Frampton, Paul Tan, Jill Drake, Nicola Dalbeth
• Extended report: Anticollagen type II antibodies are associated with an acute onset rheumatoid arthritis phenotype and prognosticate lower degree of inflammation during 5 years follow-up (23 March, 2017)

  Vivek Anand Manivel, Mohammed Mullazehi, Leonid Padyukov, Helga Westerlind, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Johan Rönnelid
• Extended report: Pharmaceutical-grade Chondroitin sulfate is as effective as celecoxib and superior to placebo in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: the ChONdroitin versus CElecoxib versus Placebo Trial (CONCEPT) (22 May, 2017)

  Jean-Yves Reginster, Jean Dudler, Tomasz Blicharski, Karel Pavelka
• Extended report: Stroke in systemic lupus erythematosus: a Swedish population-based cohort study (11 April, 2017)

  Elizabeth V Arkema, Elisabet Svenungsson, Mia Von Euler, Christopher Sjöwall, Julia F Simard
• Extended report: Efficacy and safety of abatacept, a T-cell modulator, in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III study in psoriatic arthritis (4 May, 2017)

  Philip J Mease, Alice B Gottlieb, Désirée van der Heijde, Oliver FitzGerald, Alyssa Johnsen, Marleen Nys, Subhashis Banerjee, Dafna D Gladman
• Extended report: Effect of methotrexate discontinuation on efficacy of seasonal influenza vaccination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised clinical trial (3 May, 2017)

  Jin Kyun Park, Min Ah Lee, Eun Young Lee, Yeong Wook Song, Yunhee Choi, Kevin L Winthrop, Eun Bong Lee
• Extended report: Mortality in ANCA-associated vasculitis: ameta-analysis of observational studies (3 May, 2017)

  Ju Ann Tan, Natasha Dehghan, Wenjia Chen, Hui Xie, John M Esdaile, J Antonio Avina-Zubieta
• Extended report: Enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium versus azathioprine in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus: a randomised clinical trial (27 April, 2017)

  Josep Ordi-Ros, Luis Sáez-Comet, Mercedes Pérez-Conesa, Xavier Vidal, Francesca Mitjavila, Antoni Castro Salomó, Jordi Cuquet Pedragosa, Vera Ortiz-Santamaria, Montserrat Mauri Plana, Josefina Cortés-Hernández
• Extended report: Serious adverse events and the risk of stroke in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the German RABBIT cohort (8 May, 2017)

  Y Meissner, A Richter, B Manger, HP Tony, E Wilden, J Listing, A Zink, A Strangfeld
• Extended report: Incidence and prevalence of psoriatic arthritis in Denmark: a nationwide register linkage study (8 May, 2017)

  Alexander Egeberg, Lars Erik Kristensen, Jacob P Thyssen, Gunnar Hilmar Gislason, Alice B Gottlieb, Laura C Coates, Denis Jullien, Paolo Gisondi, Dafna D Gladman, Lone Skov, Lotus Mallbris
• Concise report: A randomised, double-blind trial to demonstrate bioequivalence of GP2013 and reference rituximab combined with methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (21 June, 2017)

  Josef S Smolen, Stanley B Cohen, Hans-Peter Tony, Morton Scheinberg, Alan Kivitz, Andra Balanescu, Juan Gomez-Reino, Liyi Cen, Peijuan Zhu, Tamas Shisha
• Concise report: The efficacy of motivational counselling and SMS reminders on daily sitting time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised controlled trial (5 June, 2017)

  Tanja Thomsen, Mette Aadahl, Nina Beyer, Merete Lund Hetland, Katrine Løppenthin, Julie Midtgaard, Robin Christensen, Mikkel Østergaard, Poul Jørgen Jennum, Bente Appel Esbensen