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VOLUME 32: NO. 4 APRIL 2005

Editorials

Everyone Has the Right to Work

A. Boonen ......... 571

Patient Questionnaires for Clinical Research and Improved Standard Patient Care: Is It Better to Have 80% of the Information in 100% of Patients or 100% of the Information in 5% of Patients?

T. Pincus, F. Wolfe ......... 575

Biochemical Markers for Osteoarthritis: From the Present to the Future and Back to the Past

T. Anastassiades, K. Rees-Milton 578

Looking Out for the Backside!

A.C. Gelber ......... 580

Articles

Expanding the Definition of Clinical Differences: From Minimally Clinically Important Differences to Really Important Differences. Analyses in 8931 Patients with RA
 
F. Wolfe, K. Michaud, V. Strand ......... 583

Physical Function and Health Related Quality of Life: Analysis of 2-Year Data from Randomized, Controlled Studies of Leflunomide, Sulfasalazine, or Methotrexate in Patients with Active RA
 
V. Strand, D.L. Scott, P. Emery, J.R. Kalden, J.S. Smolen, G.W. Cannon ......... 590

A Pilot Study to Determine Whether Disability and Disease Activity Are Different in African-American and Caucasian Patients with RA in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
 
U.T. Iren, M.S. Walker, E. Hochman, R. Brasington ......... 602

Tuberculosis in SLE in an Endemic Area and the Role of Isoniazid Prophylaxis During Corticosteroid Therapy
 
M.Y. Mok, Y. Lo, T.M. Chan, W.S. Wong, C.S. Lau ......... 609

Effects of Prasterone on BMD in Women with SLE Receiving Chronic Glucocorticoid Therapy
 
P.J. Mease, E.M. Ginzler, O.S. Gluck, et al ......... 616

Antiphospholipid Antibody Profiles and Their Clinical Associations in Chinese Patients with SLE
 
M.Y. Mok, E.Y.T. Chan, D.Y.T. Fong, K.F.S. Leung, W.S. Wong, C.S. Lau ......... 622

Anti-Lipoprotein Lipase Antibody in SSc: Association with Elevated Serum Triglyceride Concentrations
 
M. Kodera, I. Hayakawa, K. Komura, et al ......... 629

Increased Incidence of Carcinoma of the Tongue in Patients with SSc
 
C.T. Derk, M. Rasheed, J.R. Spiegel, S.A. Jimenez ......... 637

Surgery of the Hand in Patients with SSc: Outcomes and Considerations
 
E.R. Bogoch, D.K. Gross ......... 642

Kidney Disease Other than Renal Crisis in Patients with Diffuse Scleroderma
 
V.D. Steen, A. Syzd, J.P. Johnson, A. Greenberg, T.A. Medsger Jr ......... 649

Effect of GM-CSF on Extracellular Matrix Deposition by Dermal Fibroblasts from Patients with Scleroderma
 
L. Postiglione, P. Ladogana, S. Montagnani, et al ......... 656

Perinatal Characteristics and Risk of Developing Primary SS: A Case-Control Study
 
B. Mostafavi, S. Akyuz, M.E. Jacobsson, L.V. Nilsen, E. Theander, L.T.H. Jacobsson ......... 665

Computer-Administered Bath AS and Quebec Scale Outcome Questionnaires for Low Back Pain: Agreement with Traditional Paper Format
 
H. Bent, C.R. Ratzlaff, E.C. Goligher, J.A. Kopec, J.H. Gillies ......... 669

Older Adults' Knowledge and Beliefs About Osteoporosis: Results of Semistructured Interviews Used for the Development of Educational Materials
 
M. Burgener, M. Arnold, J.N. Katz, et al ......... 673

Birthweight, Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism, and Risk of Lumbar Spine OA
 
K.M. Jordan, H. Syddall, E.M. Dennison, C. Cooper, N.K. Arden ......... 678

Diagnosing Hypovitaminosis D: Serum Measurements of Calcium, Phosphate, and Alkaline Phosphatase Are Unreliable, Even in the Presence of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism
 
G.R. Smith, P.O. Collinson, P.D.W. Kiely ......... 684

Inhibitors of Hyaluronan Export Prevent Proteoglycan Loss from Osteoarthritic Cartilage
 
P. Prehm ......... 690

Cross-sectional Association of 10 Molecular Markers of Bone, Cartilage, and Synovium with Disease Activity and Radiological Joint Damage in Patients with Hip OA: The ECHODIAH Cohort
 
P. Garnero, B. Mazières, A. Guéguen, et al ......... 697

Leukotriene and Prostaglandin Synthesis Pathways in Osteoarthritic Synovial Membranes: Regulating Factors for IL-1ß Synthesis
 
P. Marcouiller, J-P. Pelletier, M. Guévremont, et al ......... 704

Interface Tissue Fibroblasts from Loose Total Hip Replacement Prosthesis Produce RANKL, Osteoprotegerin, and Cathepsin K
 
J. Mandelin, T-F. Li, M. Hukkanen, et al ......... 713

Employment Across Chronic Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases and Comparison with the General Population
 
W. Mau, J. Listing, D. Huscher, H. Zeidler, A. Zink ......... 721

 

Pediatric Rheumatology

BMD in Children and Adolescents with SLE, JDM, and Systemic Vasculitis: Relationship to Disease Duration, Cumulative Corticosteroid Dose, Calcium Intake, and Exercise
 
K.A. Alsufyani, O. Ortiz-Alvarez, D.A. Cabral et al ......... 729

The Reliability of an Aerobic and an Anaerobic Exercise Tolerance Test in Patients with Juvenile Onset DM
 
T. Takken, J. van der Net, P.J.M. Helders ......... 734

Proliferative Lupus Nephritis and Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis During Treatment with Etanercept
 
A. Mor, C.O. Bingham III, L. Barisoni, E. Lydon, H.M. Belmont ......... 740

A Child with DM and a Suspicious Lymphadenopathy
 
G. Martini, F. Calabrese, F. Biscaro, F. Zulian ......... 744

Intrafamilial Variable Phenotypic Expression of a CIAS1 Mutation: From Muckle-Wells to Chronic Infantile Neurological Cutaneous and Articular Syndrome
 
V. Hentgen, V. Despert, A-C. Leprêtre, et al ......... 747

Case Reports

Development of Crohn's Disease in a Patient Taking Etanercept
 
J. Oh, D.G. Arkfeld, D.A. Horwitz 752

Reversing Myocardial Microvascular Disease in a Patient with RA
 
K. Raza, M. Banks, G.D. Kitas .........754

Isaacs' Syndrome (Autoimmune Neuromyotonia) in a Patient with SLE
 
P.W. Taylor ......... 757

Correspondence

Successful Treatment of Rheumatoid Vasculitis-Associated Foot-drop with Infliximab

D.J. Armstrong, M.T. McCarron, G.D. Wright ......... 759

Successful Treatment of Rheumatoid Vasculitis-Associated Foot-drop with Infliximab: Reply

P. Richette, T. Bardin ......... 759

Letter

Infliximab Induced Chilblain Lupus in a Patient with RA

C. Richez, C. Dumoulin, T. Schaeverbeke ......... 760

Book Review

Soft Tissue Rheumatology ......... 761

Meetings in Rheumatology



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