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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy versus placebo surgery for a degenerative meniscus tear: a 2-year follow-up of the randomised controlled trial (18 May, 2017)

  Raine Sihvonen, Mika Paavola, Antti Malmivaara, Ari Itälä, Antti Joukainen, Heikki Nurmi, Juha Kalske, Anna Ikonen, Timo Järvelä, Tero A H Järvinen, Kari Kanto, Janne Karhunen, Jani Knifsund, Heikki Kröger, Tommi Kääriäinen, Janne Lehtinen, Jukka Nyrhinen, Juha Paloneva, Outi Päiväniemi, Marko Raivio, Janne Sahlman, Roope Sarvilinna, Sikri Tukiainen, Ville-Valtteri Välimäki, Ville Äärimaa, Pirjo Toivonen, Teppo L N Järvinen
• Extended report: Cigarette smoking and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus, overall and by anti-double stranded DNA antibody subtype, in the Nurses’ Health Study cohorts (7 October, 2017)

  Medha Barbhaiya, Sara K Tedeschi, Bing Lu, Susan Malspeis, David Kreps, Jeffrey A Sparks, Elizabeth W Karlson, Karen H Costenbader
• Extended report: Anticitrullinated protein/peptide antibody multiplexing defines an extended group of ACPA-positive rheumatoid arthritis patients with distinct genetic and environmental determinants (25 October, 2017)

  Johan Rönnelid, Monika Hansson, Linda Mathsson-Alm, Martin Cornillet, Evan Reed, Per-Johan Jakobsson, Lars Alfredsson, Rikard Holmdahl, Karl Skriner, Guy Serre, Karin Lundberg, Lars Klareskog
• Extended report: Safety and efficacy of subcutaneous tocilizumab in systemic sclerosis: results from the open-label period of a phase II randomised controlled trial (faSScinate) (24 October, 2017)

  Dinesh Khanna, Christopher P Denton, Celia J F Lin, Jacob M van Laar, Tracy M Frech, Marina E Anderson, Murray Baron, Lorinda Chung, Gerhard Fierlbeck, Santhanam Lakshminarayanan, Yannick Allanore, Janet E Pope, Gabriela Riemekasten, Virginia Steen, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Helen Spotswood, Laura Burke, Jeffrey Siegel, Angelika Jahreis, Daniel E Furst
• Extended report: Evaluation of the change in structural radiographic sacroiliac joint damage after 2 years of etanercept therapy (EMBARK trial) in comparison to a contemporary control cohort (DESIR cohort) in recent onset axial spondyloarthritis (29 September, 2017)

  Maxime Dougados, Walter P Maksymowych, Robert B M Landewé, Anna Moltó, Pascal Claudepierre, Manouk de Hooge, Robert G Lambert, Randi Bonin, Jack F Bukowski, Heather E Jones, Isabelle Logeart, Ron Pedersen, Annette Szumski, Bonnie Vlahos, Désirée van der Heijde
• Extended report: Lack of placental transfer of certolizumab pegol during pregnancy: results from CRIB, a prospective, postmarketing, pharmacokinetic study (13 October, 2017)

  Xavier Mariette, Frauke Förger, Bincy Abraham, Ann D Flynn, Anna Moltó, René-Marc Flipo, Astrid van Tubergen, Laura Shaughnessy, Jeff Simpson, Marie Teil, Eric Helmer, Maggie Wang, Eliza F Chakravarty
• Extended report: Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy after switching from reference infliximab to biosimilar SB2 compared with continuing reference infliximab and SB2 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results of a randomised, double-blind, phase III transition study (17 October, 2017)

  Josef S Smolen, Jung-Yoon Choe, Nenad Prodanovic, Jaroslaw Niebrzydowski, Ivan Staykov, Eva Dokoupilova, Asta Baranauskaite, Roman Yatsyshyn, Mevludin Mekic, Wieslawa Porawska, Hana Ciferska, Krystyna Jedrychowicz-Rosiak, Agnieszka Zielinska, Younju Lee, Young Hee Rho
• Extended report: Development of a consensus core dataset in juvenile dermatomyositis for clinical use to inform research (30 October, 2017)

  Liza J McCann, Clarissa A Pilkington, Adam M Huber, Angelo Ravelli, Duncan Appelbe, Jamie J Kirkham, Paula R Williamson, Amita Aggarwal, Lisa Christopher-Stine, Tamas Constantin, Brian M Feldman, Ingrid Lundberg, Sue Maillard, Pernille Mathiesen, Ruth Murphy, Lauren M Pachman, Ann M Reed, Lisa G Rider, Annet van Royen-Kerkof, Ricardo Russo, Stefan Spinty, Lucy R Wedderburn, Michael W Beresford
• Extended report: Ideal target for psoriatic arthritis? Comparison of remission and low disease activity states in a real-life cohort (28 October, 2017)

  Leonieke J J van Mens, Marleen G H van de Sande, Arno W R van Kuijk, Dominique Baeten, Laura C Coates
• Extended report: Development and psychometric validation of a patient-reported outcome measure to assess fears in rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis: the Fear Assessment in Inflammatory Rheumatic diseases (FAIR) questionnaire (4 November, 2017)

  Laure Gossec, Pierre Chauvin, Alain Saraux, Christophe Hudry, Gabrielle Cukierman, Thibault de Chalus, Caroline Dreuillet, Vincent Saulot, Sabine Tong, Françoise Russo-Marie, Jean-Michel Joubert, Francis Berenbaum
• Extended report: Influence of disease activity and medications on offspring birth weight, pre-eclampsia and preterm birth in systemic lupus erythematosus: a population-based study (1 November, 2017)

  Carina Götestam Skorpen, Stian Lydersen, Inge-Margrethe Gilboe, Johan Fredrik Skomsvoll, Kjell Å Salvesen, Øyvind Palm, Hege Suorza Svean Koksvik, Bente Jakobsen, Marianne Wallenius
• Extended report: Stepwise dose increase of febuxostat is comparable with colchicine prophylaxis for the prevention of gout flares during the initial phase of urate-lowering therapy: results from FORTUNE-1, a prospective, multicentre randomised study (4 November, 2017)

  Hisashi Yamanaka, Shigenori Tamaki, Yumiko Ide, Hyeteko Kim, Kouichi Inoue, Masayuki Sugimoto, Yuji Hidaka, Atsuo Taniguchi, Shin Fujimori, Tetsuya Yamamoto
• Concise report: Risk of uveitis and inflammatory bowel disease in people with psoriatic arthritis: a population-based cohort study (1 November, 2017)

  Rachel Charlton, Amelia Green, Gavin Shaddick, Julia Snowball, Alison Nightingale, William Tillett, Catherine H Smith, Neil McHugh
• Extended report: Predictors of revision, prosthetic joint infection and mortality following total hip or total knee arthroplasty in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide cohort study using Danish healthcare registers (2 November, 2017)

  Rene Lindholm Cordtz, Kristian Zobbe, Pil Højgaard, Lars Erik Kristensen, Søren Overgaard, Anders Odgaard, Hanne Lindegaard, Lene Dreyer
• Concise report: Testing treat-to-target outcomes with initial methotrexate monotherapy compared with initial tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (adalimumab) plus methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis (16 November, 2017)

  Arthur Kavanaugh, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Roy Fleischmann, Paul Emery, Iain Sainsbury, Stefan Florentinus, Su Chen, Benoît Guérette, Hartmut Kupper, Josef S Smolen
• Extended report: Low-dose CT detects more progression of bone formation in comparison to conventional radiography in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: results from the SIAS cohort (10 November, 2017)

  Anoek de Koning, Freek de Bruin, Rosaline van den Berg, Sofia Ramiro, Xenofon Baraliakos, Juergen Braun, Floris A van Gaalen, Monique Reijnierse, Désirée van der Heijde