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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Statin use is associated with reduced incidence and progression of knee osteoarthritis in the Rotterdam study (11 October, 2011) Free

  S Clockaerts, G J V M Van Osch, Y M Bastiaansen-Jenniskens, J A N Verhaar, F Van Glabbeek, J B Van Meurs, H J M Kerkhof, A Hofman, B H Ch Stricker, S M Bierma-Zeinstra
• Extended report: Use of statins is associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis (6 October, 2011)

  H J I de Jong, O H Klungel, L van Dijk, R J Vandebriel, H G M Leufkens, JW van der Laan, J W Cohen Tervaert, H van Loveren
• Extended report: Life course body mass index and risk of knee osteoarthritis at the age of 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study (6 October, 2011)

  Andrew K Wills, Stephanie Black, Rachel Cooper, Russell J Coppack, Rebecca Hardy, Kathryn Remmes Martin, Cyrus Cooper, Diana Kuh
• Extended report: Golimumab administered subcutaneously every 4 weeks in ankylosing spondylitis: 104-week results of the GO-RAISE study (19 October, 2011)

  Jürgen Braun, Atul Deodhar, Robert D Inman, Désirée van der Heijde, Michael Mack, Stephen Xu, Benjamin Hsu
• Extended report: Physical activity and physical activity cognitions are potential factors maintaining fatigue in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (25 November, 2011)

  Eveline JM Wouters, Ninke van Leeuwen, Ercolie R Bossema, Aike A Kruize, Hendrika Bootsma, Johannes WJ Bijlsma, Rinie Geenen
• Extended report: Serum markers associated with clinical improvement in patients with ankylosing spondylitis treated with golimumab (28 October, 2011)

  Carrie Wagner, Sudha Visvanathan, Jürgen Braun, Désirée van der Heijde, Atul Deodhar, Benjamin Hsu, Michael Mack, Michael Elashoff, Robert D Inman
• Extended report: Remission and radiographic outcome in rheumatoid arthritis: application of the 2011 ACR/EULAR remission criteria in an observational cohort (12 October, 2011)

  Siri Lillegraven, Femke HM Prince, Nancy A Shadick, Vivian P Bykerk, Bing Lu, Michelle L Frits, Christine K Iannaccone, Tore K Kvien, Espen A Haavardsholm, Michael E Weinblatt, Daniel H Solomon
• Extended report: Tocilizumab inhibits progression of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis irrespective of its anti-inflammatory effects: disassociation of the link between inflammation and destruction (25 November, 2011)

  Josef S Smolen, José C Martinez Avila, Daniel Aletaha
• Extended report: Analysis of autosomal genes reveals gene–sex interactions and higher total genetic risk in men with systemic lupus erythematosus (21 November, 2011)

  Travis Hughes, Adam Adler, Joan T Merrill, Jennifer A Kelly, Kenneth M Kaufman, Adrienne Williams, Carl D Langefeld, Gary S Gilkeson, Elena Sanchez, Javier Martin, Susan A Boackle, Anne M Stevens, Graciela S Alarcón, Timothy B Niewold, Elizabeth E Brown, Robert P Kimberly, Jeffrey C Edberg, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Michelle Petri, John D Reveille, Lindsey A Criswell, Luis M Vilá, Chaim O Jacob, Patrick M Gaffney, Kathy L Moser, Timothy J Vyse, Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme, Judith A James, Betty P Tsao, R Hal Scofield, John B Harley, Bruce C Richardson, Amr H Sawalha
• Extended report: Early response to adalimumab predicts long-term remission through 5 years of treatment in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (29 November, 2011)

  Joachim Sieper, Désirée van der Heijde, Maxime Dougados, L Steve Brown, Frederic Lavie, Aileen L Pangan
• Concise report: Genetic predisposition of the severity of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study (4 January, 2012)

  Rachel Knevel, Gerður Gröndal, Tom W J Huizinga, A Willemien Visser, Helgi Jónsson, Arnór Víkingsson, Árni Jón Geirsson, Kristján Steinsson, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Concise report: Anti-NXP2 autoantibodies in adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: possible association with malignancy (17 January, 2012)

  Yuki Ichimura, Takashi Matsushita, Yasuhito Hamaguchi, Kenzo Kaji, Minoru Hasegawa, Yoshinori Tanino, Yayoi Inokoshi, Kazuhiro Kawai, Takuro Kanekura, Maria Habuchi, Atsuyuki Igarashi, Ryosuke Sogame, Takashi Hashimoto, Tomohiro Koga, Ayako Nishino, Naoko Ishiguro, Naoki Sugimoto, Rui Aoki, Noriko Ando, Tetsuya Abe, Takashi Kanda, Masataka Kuwana, Kazuhiko Takehara, Manabu Fujimoto
• Concise report: A high density SNP genotyping approach within the 19q13 chromosome region identifies an association of a CNOT3 polymorphism with ankylosing spondylitis (31 January, 2012)

  Roberto Díaz-Peña, Ana M Aransay, Beatriz Suárez-Álvarez, Jacome Bruges-Armas, Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, María Regueiro, Fernando M Pimentel-Santos, Juan Mulero, Alejandra Sánchez, Eduardo Collantes, Rubén Queiro, Javier Ballina, Helena Alves, Carlos López-Larrea
• Concise report: Demographic, clinical and antibody characteristics of patients with digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis: data from the DUO Registry (12 January, 2012)

  Christopher P Denton, Thomas Krieg, Loic Guillevin, Barbara Schwierin, Daniel Rosenberg, Mariabeth Silkey, Maurice Zultak, Marco Matucci-Cerinic