Table of contents

Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended Report: The association between inflammatory markers, serum lipids and the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (5 May, 2014) Free

  Jie Zhang, Lang Chen, Elizabeth Delzell, Paul Muntner, William B Hillegass, Monika M Safford, Iris Yolanda Navarro Millan, Cynthia S Crowson, Jeffrey R Curtis
• Extended Report: The global burden of neck pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study (30 January, 2014)

  Damian Hoy, Lyn March, Anthony Woolf, Fiona Blyth, Peter Brooks, Emma Smith, Theo Vos, Jan Barendregt, Jed Blore, Chris Murray, Roy Burstein, Rachelle Buchbinder
• Extended Report: The global burden of rheumatoid arthritis: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study (18 February, 2014)

  Marita Cross, Emma Smith, Damian Hoy, Loreto Carmona, Frederick Wolfe, Theo Vos, Benjamin Williams, Sherine Gabriel, Marissa Lassere, Nicole Johns, Rachelle Buchbinder, Anthony Woolf, Lyn March
• Extended Report: The global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study (19 February, 2014)

  Marita Cross, Emma Smith, Damian Hoy, Sandra Nolte, Ilana Ackerman, Marlene Fransen, Lisa Bridgett, Sean Williams, Francis Guillemin, Catherine L Hill, Laura L. Laslett, Graeme Jones, Flavia Cicuttini, Richard Osborne, Theo Vos, Rachelle Buchbinder, Anthony Woolf, Lyn March
• Extended report: Randomised comparison of initial triple DMARD therapy with methotrexate monotherapy in combination with low-dose glucocorticoid bridging therapy; 1-year data of the tREACH trial (1 May, 2014)

  P H de Jong, J M Hazes, H K Han, M Huisman, D van Zeben, P A van der Lubbe, A H Gerards, B van Schaeybroeck, P B de Sonnaville, M V van Krugten, J J Luime, A E Weel
• Extended Report: Evidence-based detection of pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: the DETECT study (18 May, 2013)

  J Gerry Coghlan, Christopher P Denton, Ekkehard Grünig, Diana Bonderman, Oliver Distler, Dinesh Khanna, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Janet E Pope, Madelon C Vonk, Martin Doelberg, Harbajan Chadha-Boreham, Harald Heinzl, Daniel M Rosenberg, Vallerie V McLaughlin, James R Seibold, on behalf of the DETECT study group
• Extended Report: Validity of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) in patients with early spondyloarthritis from the Esperanza programme (24 May, 2013)

  C Fernández-Espartero, E de Miguel, E Loza, E Tomero, M Gobbo, M A Descalzo, E Collantes-Estévez, J Mulero, S Muñoz-Fernández, P Zarco, L Carmona, ESPERANZA Study Group
• Extended Report: A two-step treatment strategy trial in patients with early arthritis aimed at achieving remission: the IMPROVED study (28 May, 2013)

  L Heimans, K V C Wevers-de Boer, K Visser, R J Goekoop, M van Oosterhout, J B Harbers, C Bijkerk, I Speyer, M P D M de Buck, P B J de Sonnaville, B A M Grillet, T W J Huizinga, C F Allaart
• Extended Report: Health-related utility values of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and its predictors (12 June, 2013)

  Dennis Lendrem, Sheryl Mitchell, Peter McMeekin, Simon Bowman, Elizabeth Price, Colin T Pease, Paul Emery, Jacqueline Andrews, Peter Lanyon, John Hunter, Monica Gupta, Michele Bombardieri, Nurhan Sutcliffe, Costantino Pitzalis, John McLaren, Annie Cooper, Marian Regan, Ian Giles, David Isenberg, Saravanan Vadivelu, David Coady, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Neil McHugh, Steven Young-Min, Robert Moots, Nagui Gendi, Mohammed Akil, Bridget Griffiths, Wan-Fai Ng, on behalf of the UK primary Sjögren's Syndrome Registry
• Extended Report: Three trajectories of activity limitations in early symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a 5-year follow-up study (28 May, 2013)

  Jasmijn F M Holla, Marike van der Leeden, Martijn W Heymans, Leo D Roorda, Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra, Maarten Boers, Willem F Lems, Martijn PM Steultjens, Joost Dekker
• Concise Report: An open-label trial of abatacept (CTLA4-IG) in non-severe relapsing granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) (9 December, 2013)

  Carol A Langford, Paul A Monach, Ulrich Specks, Philip Seo, David Cuthbertson, Carol A McAlear, Steven R Ytterberg, Gary S Hoffman, Jeffrey P Krischer, Peter A Merkel, for the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium
• Concise Report: Defining criteria for high disease activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis based on the Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (17 December, 2013)

  Alessandro Consolaro, Nicolino Ruperto, Giulia Bracciolini, Alessia Frisina, Maria Chiara Gallo, Angela Pistorio, Sara Verazza, Giorgia Negro, Valeria Gerloni, Claudia Goldenstein-Schainberg, Flavio Sztajnbok, Nico M Wulffraat, Alberto Martini, Angelo Ravelli, for the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO)
• Concise Report: Smoking as a risk factor for the radiological severity of rheumatoid arthritis: a study on six cohorts (3 January, 2014)

  D P C de Rooy, J A B van Nies, M C Kapetanovic, H Kristjansdottir, M L E Andersson, K Forslind, D M F M van der Heijde, P K Gregersen, E Lindqvist, T W J Huizinga, G Gröndal, B Svensson, A H M van der Helm-van Mil
• Concise Report: Positron emission tomography assessment of large vessel inflammation in patients with newly diagnosed, biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis: a prospective, case–control study (24 March, 2014)

  Sergio Prieto-González, Marina Depetris, Ana García-Martínez, Georgina Espígol-Frigolé, Itziar Tavera-Bahillo, Marc Corbera-Bellata, Ester Planas-Rigol, Marco A Alba, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Josep M Grau, Franciso Lomeña, Maria C Cid
• Concise Report: Abatacept treatment reduces disease activity in early primary Sjögren's syndrome (open-label proof of concept ASAP study) (28 January, 2014)

  P M Meiners, A Vissink, F G M Kroese, F K L Spijkervet, N Sillevis Smitt-Kamminga, W H Abdulahad, J Bulthuis-Kuiper, E Brouwer, S Arends, H Bootsma