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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Concise report: Successful reduction of overexposure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with high serum adalimumab concentrations: an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised clinical trial (22 September, 2017) Free

  Merel J l’Ami, Charlotte LM Krieckaert, Michael T Nurmohamed, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Theo Rispens, Maarten Boers, Gerrit Jan Wolbink
• Extended report: Phase III, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group study to evaluate the similarities between LBEC0101 and etanercept reference product in terms of efficacy and safety in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis inadequately responding to methotrexate (19 December, 2017)

  Hiroaki Matsuno, Masato Tomomitsu, Atsushi Hagino, Seonghye Shin, Jiyoon Lee, Yeong Wook Song
• Concise report: Efficacy and safety of tregalizumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate: results of a phase IIb, randomised, placebo-controlled trial (17 January, 2018)

  Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Edward Clark Keystone, Vibeke Strand, Cesar Pacheco-Tena, Jiří Vencovský, Frank Behrens, Arthur Racewicz, Daniela Zipp, Faiza Rharbaoui, Ralf Wolter, Luise Knierim, Rainer Schmeidl, Xuefei Zhou, Silke Aigner, Benjamin Dälken, Andrea Wartenberg-Demand
• Extended report: Leflunomide use during pregnancy and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes (8 December, 2017)

  Anick Bérard, Jin-Ping Zhao, Irene Shui, Susan Colilla
• Extended report: Risk of second malignant neoplasm and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with biological DMARDs: a Danish population-based cohort study (7 December, 2017)

  Lene Dreyer, René L Cordtz, Inger Marie J Hansen, Lars Erik Kristensen, Merete L Hetland, Lene Mellemkjaer
• Extended report: Risk of losing remission, low disease activity or radiographic progression in case of bDMARD discontinuation or tapering in rheumatoid arthritis: systematic analysis of the literature and meta-analysis (29 November, 2017)

  Sophie Henaux, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Alain Cantagrel, Thomas Barnetche, Bruno Fautrel, Nathalie Filippi, Cédric Lukas, Bernd Raffeiner, Maurizio Rossini, Yannick Degboé, Arnaud Constantin
• Extended report: Dual IL-17A and IL-17F neutralisation by bimekizumab in psoriatic arthritis: evidence from preclinical experiments and a randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial that IL-17F contributes to human chronic tissue inflammation (23 December, 2017)

  Sophie Glatt, Dominique Baeten, Terry Baker, Meryn Griffiths, Lucian Ionescu, Alastair D G Lawson, Ash Maroof, Ruth Oliver, Serghei Popa, Foteini Strimenopoulou, Pavan Vajjah, Mark I L Watling, Nataliya Yeremenko, Pierre Miossec, Stevan Shaw
• Extended report: Evaluation of the impact of concomitant fibromyalgia on TNF alpha blockers’ effectiveness in axial spondyloarthritis: results of a prospective, multicentre study (28 November, 2017)

  Anna Moltó, Adrien Etcheto, Laure Gossec, Nadia Boudersa, Pascal Claudepierre, Nicolas Roux, Lucie Lemeunier, Antoine Martin, Lartitia Sparsa, Pascal Coquerelle, Martin Soubrier, Serge Perrot, Maxime Dougados
• Extended report: Risk of cardiac rhythm disturbances and aortic regurgitation in different spondyloarthritis subtypes in comparison with general population: a register-based study from Sweden (19 December, 2017)

  Karin Bengtsson, Helena Forsblad-d’Elia, Elisabeth Lie, Eva Klingberg, Mats Dehlin, Sofia Exarchou, Ulf Lindström, Johan Askling, Lennart T H Jacobsson
• Extended report: Complement activation predicts adverse pregnancy outcome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and/or antiphospholipid antibodies (25 January, 2018)

  Mimi Y Kim, Marta M Guerra, Elianna Kaplowitz, Carl A Laskin, Michelle Petri, D Ware Branch, Michael D Lockshin, Lisa R Sammaritano, Joan T Merrill, T Flint Porter, Allen Sawitzke, Anne M Lynch, Jill P Buyon, Jane E Salmon
• Extended report: Scoring hypoechogenic areas in one parotid and one submandibular gland increases feasibility of ultrasound in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (12 December, 2017)

  Esther Mossel, Suzanne Arends, Jolien F van Nimwegen, Konstantina Delli, Alja J Stel, Frans G M Kroese, Fred K L Spijkervet, Arjan Vissink, Hendrika Bootsma
• Extended report: Patterns and predictors of skin score change in early diffuse systemic sclerosis from the European Scleroderma Observational Study (6 January, 2018)

  Ariane L Herrick, Sebastien Peytrignet, Mark Lunt, Xiaoyan Pan, Roger Hesselstrand, Luc Mouthon, Alan J Silman, Graham Dinsdale, Edith Brown, László Czirják, Jörg H W Distler, Oliver Distler, Kim Fligelstone, William J Gregory, Rachel Ochiel, Madelon C Vonk, Codrina Ancuţa, Voon H Ong, Dominique Farge, Marie Hudson, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Øyvind Midtvedt, Paresh Jobanputra, Alison C Jordan, Wendy Stevens, Pia Moinzadeh, Frances C Hall, Christian Agard, Marina E Anderson, Elisabeth Diot, Rajan Madhok, Mohammed Akil, Maya H Buch, Lorinda Chung, Nemanja S 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, Susanna M Proudman, Anna Rudin, Joanne Sahhar, Brigitte Coppere, Christine Serratrice, Tom Sheeran, Douglas J Veale, Claire Grange, Georges-Selim Trad, Christopher P Denton
• Extended report: Mitochondrial genetic variation and gout in Māori and Pacific people living in Aotearoa New Zealand (15 December, 2017)

  Anna L Gosling, James Boocock, Nicola Dalbeth, Jennie Harré Hindmarsh, Lisa K Stamp, Eli A Stahl, Hyon K Choi, Elizabeth A Matisoo-Smith, Tony R Merriman