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VOLUME 31: SUPPLEMENT 69 MARCH 2004

Longterm Followup of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis — The Worldwide Experience

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — August 27–28, 2001

Introduction
 
J.J. Rasker, F. Wolfe .........1

Session 1: Methodology of Data Collection

Outcome After 40 Years with RA: A Prospective Study of Function, Disease Activity, and Mortality
   
N.J. Minaur, R.K. Jacoby, J.A. Cosh, G. Taylor, J.J. Rasker .........3

Experiences from a Prospective Early RA Study in Southern Sweden
   
K. Eberhardt .........9

The Nijmegen Inception Cohort of Early RA
   
P.M.J. Welsing, P.L.C.M. van Riel .........14

Longterm Studies in RA — The German Experience
   
A. Zink, D. Huscher for the German Collaborative Arthritis Centres .........22

Progressive and Nonprogressive RA Over a 10-Year Period in Japan
   
K. Watanabe, S. Urata, K. Suzuki, M. Ohba, Y. Inagaki .........27

Methodological Issues in Conducting and Analyzing Longitudinal Observational Studies in RA
   
D.P.M. Symmons .........30

The Population Based Studies in RA. A Method of Longterm Followup Studies
   
T.K. Kvien, T. Uhlig .........35

Session 2: Radiographic Outcomes

A Short History of Data Banking in the United States from 1974 to 2003
   
F. Wolfe .........41

Assessment of Radiographs in Longitudinal Observational Studies
   
D.M.F.M. van der Heijde .........46

Is It Possible to Predict Radiological Damage in Early RA? A Report on the Occurrence, Progression, and Prognostic Factors of Radiological Erosions over the First 3 Years in 866 Patients from the Early RA Study (ERAS)
   
J. Dixey, C. Solymossy, A. Young, on behalf of the Early RA Study .........48

Radiological Progression in Established RA
   
D.L. Scott .........55

Ten-Year Radiographic Outcome in Patients with RF Positive RA Treated with Aggressive Immunosuppressive Combination Therapy
   
J. Darmawan, J.J. Rasker, H. Nuralim .........66



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