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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Predicting the course of functional limitation among older adults with knee pain: do local signs, symptoms and radiographs add anything to general indicators? (31 January, 2008)

  E Thomas, G Peat, C Mallen, L Wood, R Lacey, R Duncan, P Croft
• Cost effectiveness of the determination of autoantibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptide in the early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (11 January, 2008)

  A Konnopka, K Conrad, C Baerwald, H-H König
• Screening for hip and knee osteoarthritis in the general population: predictive value of a questionnaire and prevalence estimates (12 December, 2007)

  C H Roux, A Saraux, B Mazieres, J Pouchot, J Morvan, B Fautrel, J Testa, P Fardellone, A C Rat, J Coste, F Guillemin, L Euller-Ziegler, on behalf of the KHOALA Osteoarthritis Group
• Orthopaedic surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 20 years: prevalence and predictive factors of large joint replacement (4 January, 2008)

  M C Kapetanovic, E Lindqvist, T Saxne, K Eberhardt
• On the heritability of psoriatic arthritis. Disease concordance among monozygotic and dizygotic twins (24 January, 2008)

  O B Pedersen, A J Svendsen, L Ejstrup, A Skytthe, P Junker
• The occurrence of psoriatic arthritis in Denmark (21 January, 2008)

  O B V Pedersen, A J Svendsen, L Ejstrup, A Skytthe, P Junker
• The effect of alendronate on progression of spinal osteophytes and disc-space narrowing (14 February, 2008)

  T Neogi, M C Nevitt, K E Ensrud, D Bauer, D T Felson
• Rituximab combined with Peg-interferon-ribavirin in refractory hepatitis C virus-associated cryoglobulinaemia vasculitis (4 January, 2008)

  D Saadoun, M Resche-Rigon, D Sene, L Perard, A Karras, P Cacoub
• Lack of efficacy of etanercept in Sjögren syndrome correlates with failed suppression of tumour necrosis factor α and systemic immune activation (15 January, 2008)

  N M Moutsopoulos, G E Katsifis, N Angelov, R A Leakan, V Sankar, S Pillemer, S M Wahl
• Improvements in clinical response between 12 and 24 weeks in patients with rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept therapy with or without methotrexate (5 June, 2008)

  A Kavanaugh, L Klareskog, D van der Heijde, J Li, B Freundlich, M Hooper
• Over-representation of construction-related occupations in male patients with systemic sclerosis (29 May, 2008)

  V Smith, M Vanthuyne, B Vander Cruyssen, J Van Praet, F Vermeiren, H Smets, F Houssiau, F De Keyser