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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Bosentan treatment of digital ulcers related to systemic sclerosis: results from the RAPIDS-2 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (30 August, 2010)

  Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Christopher P Denton, Daniel E Furst, Maureen D Mayes, Vivien M Hsu, Patrick Carpentier, Fredrick M Wigley, Carol M Black, Barri J Fessler, Peter A Merkel, Janet E Pope, Nadera J Sweiss, Mittie K Doyle, Bernhard Hellmich, Thomas A Medsger, Adele Morganti, Fabrice Kramer, Joseph H Korn, James R Seibold
• Extended report: Inhibition of joint damage and improved clinical outcomes with rituximab plus methotrexate in early active rheumatoid arthritis: the IMAGE trial (11 October, 2010)

  P P Tak, W F Rigby, A Rubbert-Roth, C G Peterfy, R F van Vollenhoven, W Stohl, E Hessey, A Chen, H Tyrrell, T M Shaw, for the IMAGE Investigators
• Extended report: Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS): defining cut-off values for disease activity states and improvement scores (10 November, 2010)

  Pedro Machado, Robert Landewé, Elisabeth Lie, Tore K Kvien, Jürgen Braun, Daniel Baker, Désirée van der Heijde, for the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society
• Extended report: An assessment of disease flare in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a comparison of BILAG 2004 and the flare version of SELENA (10 September, 2010)

  D A Isenberg, E Allen, V Farewell, D D'Cruz, G S Alarcón, C Aranow, I N Bruce, M A Dooley, P R Fortin, E M Ginzler, D D Gladman, J G Hanly, M Inanc, K Kalunian, M Khamashta, J T Merrill, O Nived, M Petri, R Ramsey-Goldman, G Sturfelt, M Urowitz, D J Wallace, C Gordon, A Rahman
• Extended report: Do knee abnormalities visualised on MRI explain knee pain in knee osteoarthritis? A systematic review (9 September, 2010)

  Erlangga Yusuf, Marion C Kortekaas, Iain Watt, Tom W J Huizinga, Margreet Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Clinical and radiographic disease course of hand osteoarthritis and determinants of outcome after 6 years (24 August, 2010)

  J Bijsterbosch, I Watt, I Meulenbelt, F R Rosendaal, T W J Huizinga, M Kloppenburg
• Extended report: Subregional effects of meniscal tears on cartilage loss over 2 years in knee osteoarthritis (12 August, 2010)

  Alison Chang, Kirsten Moisio, Joan S Chmiel, Felix Eckstein, Ali Guermazi, Orit Almagor, September Cahue, Wolfgang Wirth, Pottumarthi Prasad, Leena Sharma
• Extended report: Measurement of damage in systemic vasculitis: a comparison of the Vasculitis Damage Index with the Combined Damage Assessment Index (24 August, 2010)

  Ravi Suppiah, Oliver Flossman, Chetan Mukhtyar, Federico Alberici, Bo Baslund, Denise Brown, Nadeem Hasan, Julia Holle, Zdenka Hruskova, David Jayne, Andrew Judge, Mark A Little, Peter A Merkel, Alessandra Palmisano, Philip Seo, Coen Stegeman, Vladimir Tesar, Augusto Vaglio, Kerstin Westman, Raashid Luqmani
• Extended report: Pulmonary outcome in juvenile dermatomyositis: a case-control study (30 August, 2010)

  Helga Sanner, Trond Mogens Aaløkken, Jan Tore Gran, Ivar Sjaastad, Bjørn Johansen, Berit Flatø
• Extended report: Development of a simple prognostic nomogram for individualising 5-year and 10-year absolute risks of fracture: a population-based prospective study among postmenopausal women (27 September, 2010)

  Tineke A C M van Geel, Nguyen D Nguyen, Piet P Geusens, Jacqueline R Center, Tuan V Nguyen, Geert-Jan Dinant, John A Eisman
• Extended report: Genetic variants within the MAP kinase signalling network and anti-TNF treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis patients (30 August, 2010)

  Lydia R Coulthard, John C Taylor, Steve Eyre, Biologics in Rheumatoid Arthritis Genetics and Genomics, James I Robinson, Anthony G Wilson, John D Isaacs, Kimme Hyrich, Paul Emery, Anne Barton, Jennifer H Barrett, Ann W Morgan, Michael F McDermott
• Extended report: Skin thickness progression rate: a predictor of mortality and early internal organ involvement in diffuse scleroderma (2 August, 2010)

  Robyn T Domsic, Tatiana Rodriguez-Reyna, Mary Lucas, Noreen Fertig, Thomas A Medsger
• Extended report: Efficacy of a single ultrasound-guided injection for the treatment of hip osteoarthritis (10 November, 2010)

  Ismaël Atchia, David Kane, Mike R Reed, John D Isaacs, Fraser Birrell
• Extended report: The interferon regulatory factor 5 gene confers susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis and influences its erosive phenotype (26 October, 2010)

  Karen Dawidowicz, Yannick Allanore, Mickaël Guedj, Céline Pierlot, Stefano Bombardieri, Alejandro Balsa, René Westhovens, Pilar Barrera, Helena Alves, Vitor Hugo Teixeira, Elisabeth Petit-Teixeira, Leo van de Putte, Piet van Riel, Bernard Prum, Thomas Bardin, Olivier Meyer, François Cornélis, Philippe Dieudé, for ECRAF
• Extended report: A comparative study of periarticular bone lesions in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis (11 October, 2010)

  Stephanie Finzel, Matthias Englbrecht, Klaus Engelke, Christian Stach, Georg Schett
• Extended report: The extent of the anti-citrullinated protein antibody repertoire is associated with arthritis development in patients with seropositive arthralgia (9 November, 2010)

  Lotte A van de Stadt, Ann R van der Horst, Margret H M T de Koning, Wouter H Bos, Gerrit Jan Wolbink, Rob J van de Stadt, Ger J M Pruijn, Ben A C Dijkmans, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Dörte Hamann
• Extended report: Changes in hip fracture rate before and after total knee replacement due to osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study (26 October, 2010)

  Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, M Kassim Javaid, Joe Maskell, Andrew Judge, Michael Nevitt, Cyrus Cooper, Nigel K Arden
• Extended report: Benefits of massive weight loss on symptoms, systemic inflammation and cartilage turnover in obese patients with knee osteoarthritis (26 October, 2010)

  Pascal Richette, Christine Poitou, Patrick Garnero, Eric Vicaut, Jean-Luc Bouillot, Jean-Marc Lacorte, Arnaud Basdevant, Karine Clément, Thomas Bardin, Xavier Chevalier
• Extended report: Vitamin D: an instrumental factor in the anti-phospholipid syndrome by inhibition of tissue factor expression (27 October, 2010)

  N Agmon-Levin, M Blank, G Zandman-Goddard, H Orbach, P L Meroni, A Tincani, A Doria, R Cervera, W Miesbach, L Stojanovich, V Barak, B S Porat-Katz, H Amital, Y Shoenfeld
• Extended report: Early disease onset is predicted by a higher genetic risk for lupus and is associated with a more severe phenotype in lupus patients (29 September, 2010)

  Ryan Webb, Jennifer A Kelly, Emily C Somers, Travis Hughes, Kenneth M Kaufman, Elena Sanchez, Swapan K Nath, Gail Bruner, Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme, Gary S Gilkeson, Diane L Kamen, Bruce C Richardson, John B Harley, Amr H Sawalha
• Extended report: Effectiveness of switching between TNF inhibitors in ankylosing spondylitis: data from the NOR-DMARD register (9 November, 2010)

  E Lie, D van der Heijde, T Uhlig, K Mikkelsen, E Rødevand, W Koldingsnes, C Kaufmann, T K Kvien
• Concise report:

  Meta-analyses of genes modulating intracellular T3 bio-availability reveal a possible role for the DIO3 gene in osteoarthritis susceptibility

  (19 August, 2010)

  Ingrid Meulenbelt, Steffan D Bos, Kay Chapman, Ruud van der Breggen, Jeanine J Houwing-Duistermaat, Dennis Kremer, Margreet Kloppenburg, Andrew Carr, Aspasia Tsezou, Antonio González, John Loughlin, P Eline Slagboom
• Concise report: A decrease in disease activity score (DAS) level is associated with a decrease in health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) score, independent of follow-up duration, during 5 years of tightly controlled treatment: results from the BeSt study (29 November, 2010)

  E van der Kooi, N B Klarenbeek, M Güler-Yüksel, P J S M Kerstens, P A H M van der Lubbe, M L Westedt, S ten Wolde, T W J Huizinga, B A C Dijkmans, C F Allaart
• Concise report: Clinical and ultrasonographic remission determines different chances of relapse in early and long standing rheumatoid arthritis (19 November, 2010)

  Giusy Peluso, Alessandro Michelutti, Silvia Bosello, Elisa Gremese, Barbara Tolusso, Gianfranco Ferraccioli
• Concise report: Prediction of MRI erosive progression: a comparison of modern imaging modalities in early rheumatoid arthritis patients (10 November, 2010)

  Pernille Bøyesen, Espen A Haavardsholm, Désirée van der Heijde, Mikkel Østergaard, Hilde Berner Hammer, Sølve Sesseng, Tore K Kvien
• Concise report: Nailfold capillaroscopy for day-to-day clinical use: construction of a simple scoring modality as a clinical prognostic index for digital trophic lesions (21 October, 2010)

  Vanessa Smith, Filip De Keyser, Carmen Pizzorni, Jens T Van Praet, Saskia Decuman, Alberto Sulli, Ellen Deschepper, Maurizio Cutolo
• Concise report: Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injections and inflammation on periarticular and generalised bone loss in early rheumatoid arthritis (30 August, 2010)

  Glenn Haugeberg, Sarah Morton, Paul Emery, Philip G Conaghan