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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Concise report: Exposure to passive smoking and rheumatoid arthritis risk: results from the Swedish EIRA study (3 May, 2018)

  Anna Karin Hedström, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson
• Extended report: Biomechanical properties of bone are impaired in patients with ACPA-positive rheumatoid arthritis and associated with the occurrence of fractures (23 February, 2018)

  Fabian Stemmler, David Simon, Anna-Maria Liphardt, Matthias Englbrecht, Juergen Rech, Axel J Hueber, Klaus Engelke, Georg Schett, Arnd Kleyer
• Extended report: High erythrocyte levels of the n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid linoleic acid are associated with lower risk of subsequent rheumatoid arthritis in a southern European nested case–control study (7 February, 2018)

  Paola de Pablo, Dora Romaguera, Helena L Fisk, Philip C Calder, Anne-Marie Quirke, Alison J Cartwright, Salvatore Panico, Amalia Mattiello, Diana Gavrila, Carman Navarro, Carlotta Sacerdote, Paolo Vineis, Rosario Tumino, William E Ollier, Dominique S Michaud, Elio Riboli, Patrick J Venables, Benjamin A Fisher
• Extended report: Lipid profile and effect of statin treatment in pooled phase II and phase III baricitinib studies (20 February, 2018)

  Peter C Taylor, Joel M Kremer, Paul Emery, Steven H Zuckerman, Giacomo Ruotolo, Jinglin Zhong, Lei Chen, Sarah Witt, Chadi Saifan, Monika Kurzawa, James D Otvos, Margery A Connelly, William L Macias, Douglas E Schlichting, Terence P Rooney, Stephanie de Bono, Iain B McInnes
• Extended report: Time spent in inactive disease before MTX withdrawal is relevant with regard to the flare risk in patients with JIA (16 February, 2018)

  Jens Klotsche, Kirsten Minden, Martina Niewerth, Gerd Horneff
• Extended report: ADJUVITE: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of adalimumab in early onset, chronic, juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated anterior uveitis (23 December, 2017)

  Pierre Quartier, Amandine Baptiste, Véronique Despert, Emma Allain-Launay, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Alexandre Belot, Laurent Kodjikian, Dominique Monnet, Michel Weber, Caroline Elie, Bahram Bodaghi
• Extended report: Risk of malignancy associated with paediatric use of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (9 February, 2018)

  Timothy Beukelman, Fenglong Xie, Lang Chen, Daniel B Horton, James D Lewis, Ronac Mamtani, Melissa M Mannion, Kenneth G Saag, Jeffrey R Curtis
• Extended report: Determinants of psychological well-being in axial spondyloarthritis: an analysis based on linked claims and patient-reported survey data (10 March, 2018)

  Imke Redeker, Falk Hoffmann, Johanna Callhoff, Hildrun Haibel, Joachim Sieper, Angela Zink, Denis Poddubnyy
• Extended report: Sialendoscopy enhances salivary gland function in Sjögren’s syndrome: a 6-month follow-up, randomised and controlled, single blind study (23 February, 2018)

  K Hakki Karagozoglu, Arjan Vissink, Tim Forouzanfar, Henk S Brand, Floor Maarse, Derk Hendrik Jan Jager
• Extended report: Common measure of quality of life for people with systemic sclerosis across seven European countries: a cross-sectional study (20 February, 2018)

  Mwidimi Ndosi, Begonya Alcacer-Pitarch, Yannick Allanore, Francesco del Galdo, Marc Frerix, Sílvia García-Díaz, Roger Hesselstrand, Christine Kendall, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Ulf Mueller-Ladner, Gunnel Sandqvist, Vicenç Torrente-Segarra, Tim Schmeiser, Matylda Sierakowska, Justyna Sierakowska, Stanslaw Sierakowski, Anthony Redmond
• Extended report: MR-PheWAS: exploring the causal effect of SUA level on multiple disease outcomes by using genetic instruments in UK Biobank (6 February, 2018)

  Xue Li, Xiangrui Meng, Athina Spiliopoulou, Maria Timofeeva, Wei-Qi Wei, Aliya Gifford, Xia Shen, Yazhou He, Tim Varley, Paul McKeigue, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Alan F Wright, Peter Joshi, Joshua C Denny, Harry Campbell, Evropi Theodoratou
• Concise report: Relationship between serum urate concentration and clinically evident incident gout: an individual participant data analysis (20 February, 2018)

  Nicola Dalbeth, Amanda Phipps-Green, Christopher Frampton, Tuhina Neogi, William J Taylor, Tony R Merriman