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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on radiographic spinal progression in patients with axial spondyloarthritis: results from the German Spondyloarthritis Inception Cohort (29 March, 2012) Free

  Denis Poddubnyy, Martin Rudwaleit, Hildrun Haibel, Joachim Listing, Elisabeth Märker-Hermann, Henning Zeidler, Jürgen Braun, Joachim Sieper
• Extended report: Continuous NSAID use reverts the effects of inflammation on radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (24 April, 2012) Free

  Féline Kroon, Robert Landewé, Maxime Dougados, Désirée van der Heijde
• Clinical evaluation of the efficacy of the P2X₇ purinergic receptor antagonist AZD9056 on the signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with active disease despite treatment with methotrexate or sulphasalazine

  (10 September, 2012)

  Edward C Keystone, Millie M Wang, Mark Layton, Sally Hollis, Iain B McInnes, on behalf of the D1520C00001 Study Team
• Extended report: Do worsening scleroderma capillaroscopic patterns predict future severe organ involvement? a pilot study (8 March, 2012)

  Vanessa Smith, Saskia Decuman, Alberto Sulli, Carolien Bonroy, Yves Piettte, Ellen Deschepper, Filip de Keyser, Maurizio Cutolo
• Extended report: Relationship between area-level socio-economic deprivation and autoantibody status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: multicentre cross-sectional study (22 March, 2012)

  Sarah L Mackie, John C Taylor, Sarah Twigg, Stephen G Martin, Sophia Steer, Jane Worthington, Anne Barton, Anthony G Wilson, Lynne Hocking, Adam Young, Paul Emery, Jennifer H Barrett, Ann W Morgan
• Extended report:

  Positive association between STAT4 polymorphisms and polymyositis/dermatomyositis in a Japanese population

  (8 March, 2012)

  Tomoko Sugiura, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Kanako Goto, Yukiko Hayashi, Rie Tsuburaya, Takefumi Furuya, Takahisa Gono, Ichizo Nishino, Hisashi Yamanaka
• Extended report:

  Genetic variants in IL15 associate with progression of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis: a multicohort study

  (22 March, 2012)

  R Knevel, A Krabben, E Brouwer, M D Posthumus, A G Wilson, E Lindqvist, T Saxne, D de Rooy, N Daha, M P M van der Linden, G Stoeken, L van Toorn, B Koeleman, R Tsonaka, A Zhernakoza, J J Houwing-Duistermaat, R Toes, T W J Huizinga, A van der Helm-van Mil
• Extended report: Realignment treatment for medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis: randomised trial (29 February, 2012)

  David Hunter, K D Gross, Paula McCree, Ling Li, Kelly Hirko, William F Harvey
• Extended report: Antibodies binding to citrullinated telopeptides of type I and type II collagens and to mutated citrullinated vimentin synergistically predict the development of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (14 March, 2012)

  Marja-Kaisa Koivula, Markku Heliövaara, Harri Rissanen, Timo Palosuo, Paul Knekt, Heikki Immonen, Juha Risteli
• Extended report: Golimumab in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis who have previous experience with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: results of a long-term extension of the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled GO-AFTER study through week 160 (29 March, 2012)

  Josef S Smolen, Jonathan Kay, Robert B M Landewé, Eric L Matteson, Norman Gaylis, Jurgen Wollenhaupt, Frederick T Murphy, Yiying Zhou, Elizabeth C Hsia, Mittie K Doyle
• Extended report: Evolution of radiographic joint damage in rituximab-treated versus TNF-treated rheumatoid arthritis cases with inadequate response to TNF antagonists (14 March, 2012)

  Axel Finckh, Burkhard Möller, Jean Dudler, Ulrich A Walker, Diego Kyburz, Cem Gabay
• Extended report: Predicting longitudinal trajectory of bone mineral density in paediatric systemic lupus erythematosus patients (22 March, 2012)

  Lily Siok Hoon Lim, Susanne M Benseler, Pascal N Tyrrell, Elizabeth Harvey, Diane Herbert, Martin Charron, Earl D Silverman
• Extended report: Performance of a multi-biomarker score measuring rheumatoid arthritis disease activity in the CAMERA tight control study (17 May, 2012)

  Marije F Bakker, Guy Cavet, Johannes WG Jacobs, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Douglas J Haney, Yijing Shen, Lyndal K Hesterberg, Dustin R Smith, Michael Centola, Joel A G van Roon, Floris P J G Lafeber, Paco M J Welsing
• Concise report: The association between erosive hand osteoarthritis and subchondral bone attrition of the knee: the Framingham Osteoarthritis Study (23 June, 2012)

  Ida Kristin Haugen, David T Felson, Martin Englund, Ke Wang, Piran Aliabadi, Ali Guermazi, Frank W Roemer, Tuhina Neogi
• Concise report: Near misses of ACR/EULAR criteria for remission: effects of patient global assessment in Boolean and index-based definitions (26 June, 2012)

  Paul Studenic, Josef S Smolen, Daniel Aletaha