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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Purine-rich foods intake and recurrent gout attacks (30 May, 2012) Free

  Yuqing Zhang, Clara Chen, Hyon Choi, Christine Chaisson, David Hunter, Jingbo Niu, Tuhina Neogi
• Extended report: A randomised, double-blind, controlled trial comparing two intra-articular hyaluronic acid preparations differing by their molecular weight in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (31 January, 2012)

  Francis Berenbaum, Joachim Grifka, Sara Cazzaniga, Massimo D'Amato, Giampaolo Giacovelli, Xavier Chevalier, Francois Rannou, Lucio C Rovati, Emmanuel Maheu
• Extended report: A vascular endothelial growth factor deficiency characterises scleroderma lung disease (8 March, 2012)

  Maria De Santis, Silvia Laura Bosello, Ettore Capoluongo, Rosanna Inzitari, Giusy Peluso, Paola Lulli, Gaetano Zizzo, Mario Bocci, Barbara Tolusso, Cecilia Zuppi, Massimo Castagnola, Gianfranco Ferraccioli
• Extended report: Dual energy CT in gout: a prospective validation study (2 March, 2012)

  Hyon K Choi, Lindsay C Burns, Kamran Shojania, Nicole Koenig, Graham Reid, Mohammed Abufayyah, Genevieve Law, Alison S Kydd, Hugue Ouellette, Savvas Nicolaou
• Extended report: Remission induction therapy with methotrexate and prednisone in patients with early rheumatoid and undifferentiated arthritis (the IMPROVED study) (8 March, 2012)

  Kirsten Wevers-de Boer, Karen Visser, Lotte Heimans, H Karel Ronday, Esmeralda Molenaar, J Hans L M Groenendael, André J Peeters, Marie-Louise Westedt, Gerard Collée, Peter B J de Sonnaville, Bernard A M Grillet, Tom W J Huizinga, Cornelia F Allaart
• Extended report: Responsiveness of EQ-5D and SF-6D in patients with early arthritis: results from the ESPOIR cohort (14 March, 2012)

  Cécile Gaujoux-Viala, Anne-Christine Rat, Francis Guillemin, René-Marc Flipo, Patrice Fardellone, Pierre Bourgeois, Bruno Fautrel
• Extended report: Prediction of clinical non-response to methotrexate treatment in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (3 April, 2012)

  Maja Bulatović, Marloes W Heijstek, E H Pieter Van Dijkhuizen, Nico M Wulffraat, Saskia M F Pluijm, Robert de Jonge
• Extended report: Patient and provider barriers to effective management of gout in general practice: a qualitative study (22 March, 2012)

  Karen Spencer, Alison Carr, Michael Doherty
• Extended report: Initiation and adherence to secondary prevention pharmacotherapy after myocardial infarction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide cohort study (8 March, 2012)

  Jesper Lindhardsen, Ole Ahlehoff, Gunnar Hilmar Gislason, Ole Rintek Madsen, Jonas Bjerring Olesen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Peter Riis Hansen
• Extended report: Seizure disorders in systemic lupus erythematosus results from an international, prospective, inception cohort study (4 April, 2012)

  John G Hanly, Murray B Urowitz, Li Su, Caroline Gordon, Sang-Cheol Bae, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero, Juanita Romero-Diaz, Daniel J Wallace, Ann E Clarke, EM Ginzler, Joan T Merrill, David A Isenberg, Anisur Rahman, M Petri, Paul R Fortin, DD Gladman, Ian N Bruce, Kristjan Steinsson, MA Dooley, Munther A Khamashta, Graciela S Alarcón, Barri J Fessler, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Susan Manzi, Asad A Zoma, Gunnar K Sturfelt, Ola Nived, Cynthia Aranow, Meggan Mackay, Manuel Ramos-Casals, RF van Vollenhoven, Kenneth C Kalunian, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Sam Lim, Diane L Kamen, Christine A Peschken, Murat Inanc, Chris Theriault, Kara Thompson, Vernon Farewell
• Extended report: Treatment-specific changes in circulating adipocytokines: a comparison between tumour necrosis factor blockade and glucocorticoid treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (22 March, 2012)

  R. Klaasen, M M J Herenius, C A Wijbrandts, W de Jager, L H van Tuyl, M T Nurmohamed, B J Prakken, D M Gerlag, P P Tak
• Extended report: Defining discriminative pain trajectories in hip osteoarthritis over a 2-year time period (4 April, 2012)

  Saskia P J Verkleij, Trynke Hoekstra, Rianne M Rozendaal, Jan H Waarsing, Bart W Koes, Pim A J Luijsterburg, Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra
• Extended report: Risk of incident cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-analysis of observational studies (16 March, 2012)

  Juan Antonio Avina-Zubieta, Jamie Thomas, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Allen J Lehman, Diane Lacaille
• Concise report: Rapid radiological progression in the first year of early rheumatoid arthritis is predictive of disability and joint damage progression during 8 years of follow-up (24 April, 2012)

  M van den Broek, L Dirven, J K de Vries-Bouwstra, A J Dehpoor, Y P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, A H Gerards, P J S M Kerstens, T W J Huizinga, WF Lems, C F Allaart
• Concise report: Subclinical femoral atheromatosis in rheumatoid arthritis: comparable prevalence to diabetes mellitus in a case-control study (4 July, 2012)

  Athanase Protogerou, Evangelia Zampeli, Nikos Tentolouris, Kostas Makrilakis, George Kitas, Petros P Sfikakis
• Concise report: Genetic contribution to radiographic severity in osteoarthritis of the knee (21 May, 2012)

  Ana M Valdes, Sally Doherty, Kenneth R Muir, Weiya Zhang, Rose A Maciewicz, Margaret Wheeler, Nigel Arden, Cyrus Cooper, M Doherty
• Concise report: Periodontal disease is significantly higher in non-smoking treatment-naive rheumatoid arthritis patients: results from a case-control study (8 August, 2012)

  Damodaram Potikuri, Kalyan Chakravarthy Dannana, Suresh Kanchinadam, Sumeet Agrawal, Anuradha Kancharla, Liza Rajasekhar, Shantakumari Pothuraju, Narsimulu Gumdal