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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Exposure to ultraviolet-B and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis among women in the Nurses’ Health Study (4 February, 2013) Free

  Elizabeth V Arkema, Jaime E Hart, Kimberly A Bertrand, Francine Laden, Francine Grodstein, Bernard A Rosner, Elizabeth W Karlson, Karen H Costenbader
• Extended report: Low serum levels of vitamin D in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (19 September, 2012) Free

  Payam Azali, Sevim Barbasso Helmers, Ingrid Kockum, Tomas Olsson, Lars Alfredsson, Peter J Charles, Karin Piehl Aulin, Ingrid E Lundberg
• Extended report: Adalimumab: long-term safety in 23 458 patients from global clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn's disease (5 May, 2012)

  Gerd R Burmester, Remo Panaccione, Kenneth B Gordon, Melissa J McIlraith, Ana P M Lacerda
• Extended report: Parental history of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and risk in offspring in a nationwide cohort study: does sex matter? (14 May, 2012)

  Emily C Somers, Sussie Antonsen, Lars Pedersen, Henrik Toft Sørensen
• Extended report: Detection, scoring and volume assessment of bone erosions by ultrasonography in rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with CT (15 May, 2012)

  Uffe Møller Døhn, Lene Terslev, Marcin Szkudlarek, Michael Sejer Hansen, Merete Lund Hetland, Annette Hansen, Ole Rintek Madsen, Maria Hasselquist, Jakob Møller, Mikkel Østergaard
• Extended report: Associations between serum levels of inflammatory markers and change in knee pain over 5 years in older adults: a prospective cohort study (12 May, 2012)

  Oliver P Stannus, Graeme Jones, Leigh Blizzard, Flavia M Cicuttini, Changhai Ding
• Extended report: Occurrence and relative risk of stroke in incident and prevalent contemporary rheumatoid arthritis (18 May, 2012)

  Marie Holmqvist, Emma Gränsmark, Ängla Mantel, Lars Alfredsson, Lennart T H Jacobsson, Solveig Wallberg-Jonsson, Johan Askling
• Extended report: Second pregnancy outcomes for women with systemic lupus erythematosus (29 June, 2012)

  Antonia W Shand, Charles S Algert, Lyn March, Christine L Roberts
• Extended report: Elaboration and validation of a questionnaire assessing patient expectations about management of knee osteoarthritis by their physicians: the Knee Osteoarthritis Expectations Questionnaire (6 May, 2012)

  Mathilde Benhamou, Isabelle Boutron, Marie Dalichampt, Gabriel Baron, Sophie Alami, François Rannou, Philippe Ravaud, Serge Poiraudeau
• Extended report: HDL protein composition alters from proatherogenic into less atherogenic and proinflammatory in rheumatoid arthritis patients responding to rituximab (15 May, 2012)

  Hennie G Raterman, Han Levels, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Willem F Lems, Ben A Dijkmans, Michael T Nurmohamed
• Extended report: Psoriasis and phenotype of patients with early inflammatory back pain (7 June, 2012)

  Pascal Richette, Florence Tubach, Maxime Breban, Manuelle Viguier, Hervé Bachelez, Thomas Bardin, Maxime Dougados
• Extended report: Histopathological correlation supports the use of x-rays in the diagnosis of hand osteoarthritis (12 May, 2012)

  Ilse-Gerlinde Sunk, Love Amoyo-Minar, Birgit Niederreiter, Afschin Soleiman, Franz Kainberger, Josef S Smolen, Klaus Bobacz
• Extended report: Gender difference in disease expression, radiographic damage and disability among patients with psoriatic arthritis (15 May, 2012)

  Lihi Eder, Arane Thavaneswaran, Vinod Chandran, Dafna D Gladman
• Concise report: Blocking the effects of interleukin-6 in rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory rheumatic diseases: systematic literature review and meta-analysis informing a consensus statement (10 November, 2012)

  Monika M Schoels, Désirée van der Heijde, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Gerd R Burmester, Maxime Dougados, Paul Emery, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Cem Gabay, Allan Gibofsky, Juan Jesus Gomez-Reino, Graeme Jones, Tore K Kvien, Miho M Murikama, Norihiro Nishimoto, Josef S Smolen