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Rheumatoid arthritis

• Original article: Association of erythrocyte methotrexate-polyglutamate levels with the efficacy and hepatotoxicity of methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a 76-week prospective study (3 January, 2017)

  Chihiro Takahashi, Yuko Kaneko, Yutaka Okano, Hiroaki Taguchi, Hisaji Oshima, Keisuke Izumi, Kunihiro Yamaoka, Tsutomu Takeuchi
• Review: Systematic review and network meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of tumour necrosis factor inhibitor–methotrexate combination therapy versus triple therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (3 January, 2017)

  Roy Fleischmann, Vanita Tongbram, Ronald van Vollenhoven, Derek H Tang, James Chung, David Collier, Shilpa Urs, Kerigo Ndirangu, George Wells, Janet Pope
• Original article: Multireader assessment as an alternative to reference assessment to improve the detection of radiographic progression in a large longitudinal cohort of rheumatoid arthritis (ESPOIR) (4 January, 2017)

  Frederique Gandjbakhch, Benjamin Granger, Romain Freund, Violaine Foltz, Sandrine Jousse-Joulin, Valerie Devauchelle, Mona Afshar, Jean David Albert, Florian Bailly, Elodie Constant, Lisa Biale, Morgane Milin, Marion Couderc, Delphine Denarie, Anne Fradin, Virginie Martaille, Audrey Pierreisnard, Nicolas Poursac, Alain Saraux, Bruno Fautrel
• Original article: Factors influencing the use of tocilizumab as monotherapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in a real-life setting: results at 1 year of the ACT-SOLO study (10 January, 2017)

  René-Marc Flipo, Jean-Francis Maillefert, Pascal Chazerain, Isabelle Idier, Mathieu Coudert, Jacques Tebib
• Original article: DAS28-CRP and DAS28-ESR cut-offs for high disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis are not interchangeable (30 January, 2017)

  Roy M Fleischmann, Désirée van der Heijde, Philip V Gardiner, Annette Szumski, Lisa Marshall, Eustratios Bananis
• Original article: Baseline autoantibodies preferentially impact abatacept efficacy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who are biologic naïve: 6-month results from a real-world, international, prospective study (13 February, 2017)

  Rieke Alten, Hubert G Nüßlein, Xavier Mariette, Mauro Galeazzi, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Alain Cantagrel, Melanie Chartier, Coralie Poncet, Christiane Rauch, Manuela Le Bars
• Original article: No impact of concomitant methotrexate use on serious adverse event and serious infection risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with bDMARDs: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis (23 February, 2017)

  Claire Baradat, Yannick Degboé, Arnaud Constantin, Alain Cantagrel, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand
• Original article: Sarilumab improves patient-reported outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients with inadequate response/intolerance to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (7 March, 2017)

  Vibeke Strand, Matthew Reaney, Chieh-I Chen, Clare W J Proudfoot, Sophie Guillonneau, Deborah Bauer, Erin Mangan, Neil M H Graham, Hubert van Hoogstraten, Yong Lin, César Pacheco-Tena, Roy Fleischmann
• Original article: Physical workload is associated with increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis: results from a Swedish population-based case–control study (14 March, 2017)

  Pingling Zeng, Lars Klareskog, Lars Alfredsson, Camilla Bengtsson
• Original article: What causes a small increase in radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis patients tapering TNF inhibitors? (20 March, 2017)

  Chantal A M Bouman, Alfons A den Broeder, Aatke van der Maas, Frank H J van den Hoogen, Robert B M Landewé, Noortje van Herwaarden
• Original article: Patient-reported outcomes from a phase III study of baricitinib in patients with conventional synthetic DMARD-refractory rheumatoid arthritis (21 March, 2017)

  Paul Emery, Ricardo Blanco, Jose Maldonado Cocco, Ying-Chou Chen, Carol L Gaich, Amy M DeLozier, Stephanie de Bono, Jiajun Liu, Terence Rooney, Cecile Hsiao-Chun Chang, Maxime Dougados
• Original article: Fully automated joint space width measurement and digital X-ray radiogrammetry in early RA (29 June, 2017)

  Michael Platten, Yogan Kisten, Johan Kälvesten, Laurent Arnaud, Kristina Forslind, Ronald van Vollenhoven
• Short report: Evaluating quality of care in rheumatoid arthritis: the patient perspective (29 June, 2017)

  Sehrash Mahmood, Marianne van Oosterhout, Sija de Jong, Robert Landewé, Piet van Riel, Lilian H D van Tuyl
• Short report: Th1 is the predominant helper T cell subset that produces GM-CSF in the joint of rheumatoid arthritis (13 July, 2017)

  Hisakata Yamada, Akihisa Haraguchi, Koji Sakuraba, Ken Okazaki, Jun-Ichi Fukushi, Hideki Mizu-Uchi, Yukio Akasaki, Yukio Esaki, Satoshi Kamura, Kenjiro Fujimura, Masakazu Kondo, Hisaaki Miyahara, Yasuharu Nakashima, Yasunobu Yoshikai
• Original article: Mortality in patients with interstitial lung disease treated with rituximab or TNFi as a first biologic (13 July, 2017)

  Katie L Druce, Kundan Iqbal, Kath D Watson, Deborah P M Symmons, Kimme L Hyrich, Clive Kelly
• Original article: Methotrexate and low-dose prednisolone downregulate osteoclast function by decreasing receptor activator of nuclear factor-κβ expression in monocytes from patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (13 July, 2017)

  Inês Pedro Perpétuo, Joana Caetano-Lopes, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Raquel Campanilho-Marques, Cristina Ponte, Helena Canhão, Mari Ainola, João Eurico Fonseca