Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 9 - Number: 92 - June 15, 2009

Outstanding

More May Not Be Better — But Is Less Enough?

Incremental cost effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors for the prevention of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ulcers: a pharmacoeconomic analysis linked to a case-control study

Lack of association between glucocorticoid use and presence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study

Medication persistence over 2 years of follow-up in a cohort of early rheumatoid arthritis patients: associated factors and relationship with disease activity and with disability

Editorial

Interferon-induced versus chemokine transcripts as lupus biomarkers

More intrinsic parameters should be used in assessing degeneration of articular cartilage with quantitative ultrasound

More May Not Be Better — But Is Less Enough?

Overlap Between Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Is It Real or Just an Illusion?

Plasma gelsolin as a biomarker of inflammation

Statistics and the Relationship of Clinical Research to Clinical Practice

Vitamin D or hormone D deficiency in autoimmune rheumatic diseases, including undifferentiated connective tissue disease

Investigational Article

Impaired vascular responses to parasympathetic nerve stimulation and muscarinic receptor activation in the submandibular gland in nonobese diabetic mice

Implication of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor induced neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis revealed by proteome analysis

Incremental cost effectiveness of proton pump inhibitors for the prevention of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ulcers: a pharmacoeconomic analysis linked to a case-control study

Lack of association between glucocorticoid use and presence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study

Medication persistence over 2 years of follow-up in a cohort of early rheumatoid arthritis patients: associated factors and relationship with disease activity and with disability

Selective amplification of glucocorticoid anti-inflammatory activity through synergistic multi-target action of a combination drug

The proliferative human monocyte subpopulation contains osteoclast precursors

The response to oestrogen deprivation of the cartilage collagen degradation marker, CTX-II, is unique compared with other markers of collagen turnover

The retinoic acid binding protein CRABP2 is increased in murine models of degenerative joint disease

Women, men, and rheumatoid arthritis: analyses of disease activity, disease characteristics, and treatments in the QUEST-RA Study

Reviews

Osteoimmunology in rheumatic diseases

Psoriatic arthritis: from pathogenesis to therapy

Tissue engineering in the rheumatic diseases

Transcription profiling of rheumatic diseases