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    International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases: Volume 21, Issue 5

    903-1147
    May 2018
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  • Pages: 903-907
  • First Published: 23 May 2018

Special Editorial Review

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Atherosclerosis and autoimmunity: a growing relationship

Maryam Sanjadi,  Ziba Rezvanie Sichanie,  Hamidreza Totonchi,  Jafar Karami,  Ramazan Rezaei,  Saeed Aslani, 
  • Pages: 908-921
  • First Published: 19 April 2018

Meta-Analysis

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Comparative efficacy and safety of biosimilar-infliximab and originator-infliximab in combination with methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Sang-Cheol Bae,  Young Ho Lee, 
  • Pages: 922-929
  • First Published: 19 April 2018

Original Articles

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with ethnicity and knee pain in a multi-ethnic South-East Asian nation: Results from Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research (MELoR)

Sumaiyah Mat,  Mohamad Hasif Jaafar,  Sargunan Sockalingam,  Jasmin Raja,  Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman,  Ai-Vyrn Chin,  Azlina Amir Abbas,  Chee Ken Chan,  Noran Naqiah Hairi,  Sajaratulnisah Othman,  Robert Cumming,  Maw Pin Tan, 
  • Pages: 930-936
  • First Published: 03 April 2018

Inflammatory back pain and associated disease conditions among patients with chronic low back pain in Bangladesh

Sabrina Yesmin,  Syed Jamil Abdal,  Aminur Rahman,  Md. Nazrul Islam,  Alamgir Mustak Ahammad,  Shamim Ahmed,  Md. Abu Shahin,  Minhaj Rahim Chowdhury,  Syed Atiqul Haq, 
  • Pages: 937-942
  • First Published: 18 January 2018

Clinical and economic implications of upper gastrointestinal adverse events in Asian rheumatological patients on long-term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

Lydia Say Lee Pok,  Fatiha Hana Shabaruddin,  Maznah Dahlui,  Sargunan Sockalingam,  Mohd Shahrir Mohamed Said,  Azmillah Rosman,  Ing Soo Lau,  Liza Mohd Isa,  Heselynn Hussein,  Chin Teck Ng,  Sanjiv Mahadeva, 
  • Pages: 943-951
  • First Published: 05 January 2018

Effects of quadriceps functional exercise with isometric contraction in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis

Lanfeng Huang,  Bin Guo,  Feixiang Xu,  Jinsong Zhao, 
  • Pages: 952-959
  • First Published: 25 May 2017

Clinical outcomes are associated with changes in ultrasonographic structural appearance after platelet-rich plasma treatment for knee osteoarthritis

Hamada S. Ahmad,  Sherief E. Farrag,  Amr E. Okasha,  Aisha O. Kadry,  Tamer B. Ata,  Amir A. Monir,  Ibrahim Shady, 
  • Pages: 960-966
  • First Published: 23 May 2018

Lack of association between vitamin D receptor genes BsmI as well as ApaI polymorphisms and osteoporosis risk: A pooled analysis on Chinese individuals

Qing-xian Wang,  Shi-meng Zhao,  Ya-bin Zhou,  Cheng Zhang, 
  • Pages: 967-974
  • First Published: 06 April 2018

Effects of quality indicator monitoring for glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and trends of drug treatment in a Japanese hospital

Masei Suda,  Yasuhiro Suyama,  Sachiko Ohde,  Tokutaro Tsuda,  Haruki Sawada,  Mitsumasa Kishimoto,  Masato Okada, 
  • Pages: 975-981
  • First Published: 23 May 2018

Safety of intra-articular steroid injections prior to arthroplasty: Best evidence selection and risk of bias considerations

Hu Li,  Dan Xing,  Yan Ke,  Jianhao Lin, 
  • Pages: 982-991
  • First Published: 23 May 2018

Effects of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and vitamin D-binding protein on bone mineral density and disease activity in Malaysian patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Tze Hao Wong,  Esha Das Gupta,  Ammu K. Radhakrishnan,  Suk Chyn Gun,  Gandhi Chembalingam,  Swan Sim Yeap, 
  • Pages: 992-1000
  • First Published: 20 February 2017

Factors associated with quality of life and functional disability among rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs for at least 6 months

Sang-Cheol Bae,  Soo-Kyung Cho,  Soyoung Won,  Hye-Soon Lee,  Sang-Heon Lee,  Young Mo Kang,  Sang-Hoon Lee,  Yeon-Ah Lee,  Jung-Yoon Choe,  Won-Tae Chung,  Chang-Hee Suh,  Seung-Cheol Shim,  Jisoo Lee,  Bo Young Yoon,  Dong-Wook Kim,  Shin-Seok Lee,  Wan-Hee Yoo,  Jin-Seok Kim,  Young-Ok Jung,  Seong-Su Nah,  Choong-Ki Lee,  Gwan-Gyu Song,  Sung Jae Choi,  Chung-Il Joung,  Hyein Koh,  Young-Joo Kim, 
  • Pages: 1001-1009
  • First Published: 05 November 2016

Oral Methotrexate in split dose weekly versus oral or parenteral Methotrexate once weekly in Rheumatoid Arthritis: a short-term study

Pooja Dhaon,  Siddharth K. Das,  Ragini Srivastava,  Girdhar Agarwal,  Akash Asthana, 
  • Pages: 1010-1017
  • First Published: 26 July 2016

Prevalence of antinuclear antibodies in hidradenitis suppurativa

Shaunak Mulani,  Sean McNish,  Derek Jones,  Victoria K. Shanmugam, 
  • Pages: 1018-1022
  • First Published: 23 May 2018

Metabolic syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Association with disease activity, disease damage and age

Maryam Mobini,  Fatemeh Niksolat,  Reza Ali Mohammadpour,  Saeed Dashti Dargahloo,  Dorsa Marzban, 
  • Pages: 1023-1030
  • First Published: 03 April 2018

Outcome and predictors of renal survival in patients with lupus nephritis: Comparison between cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil

Young Bin Joo,  Young Mo Kang,  Hyoun-Ah Kim,  Chang-Hee Suh,  Tae-Jong Kim,  Yong-Wook Park,  Jisoo Lee,  Joo-Hyun Lee,  Dae Hyun Yoo,  Sang-Cheol Bae,  Hye-Soon Lee,  So-Young Bang, 
  • Pages: 1031-1039
  • First Published: 02 April 2018

Effect of induction therapy on circulating T-helper 17 and T-regulatory cells in active proliferative lupus nephritis

Sajjan Shenoy,  Smriti Chaurasia,  Sukesh Edavalath,  Abhishek Zanwar,  Vinita Agrawal,  Amita Aggarwal,  Ramnath Misra, 
  • Pages: 1040-1048
  • First Published: 02 February 2018

Bone marrow as a target organ of systemic lupus erythematosus: analysis of cases with myelofibrosis

Döndü Üsküdar Cansu,  Hava Üsküdar Teke,  Serap Işiksoy,  Cengiz Korkmaz, 
  • Pages: 1049-1059
  • First Published: 19 April 2018

Effect of different hepatitis B infection status on the prognosis of active lupus nephritis treated with immunosuppression: a retrospective analysis of 177 patients

Jing Fang,  Wenge Li,  Min Tan,  Xiangxin Peng,  Zhao Tan,  Wenbo Wang, 
  • Pages: 1060-1067
  • First Published: 23 May 2018

Characteristics and risk factors of pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome

Shumin Yan,  Mengtao Li,  Hui Wang,  Xiaoxi Yang,  Jiuliang Zhao,  Qian Wang,  Yongtai Liu,  Jinzhi Lai,  Zhuang Tian,  Hui Song,  Yan Zhao,  Xiaofeng Zeng, 
  • Pages: 1068-1075
  • First Published: 06 April 2018

Analysis of anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody in Hong Kong Chinese patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: diagnostic utility and clinical correlations

Ho SO,  Ricky W.-K. IP,  Victor T.-L. WONG,  Ronald M.-L. YIP, 
  • Pages: 1076-1081
  • First Published: 30 January 2018

Differences in clinical presentation and incidence of cardiopulmonary involvement in late-onset versus early-onset systemic sclerosis: inception cohort study

Suparaporn Wangkaew,  Phiriya Phiriyakrit,  Vittawin Sawangduan,  Narawudt Prasertwittayakij,  Juntima Euathrongchit, 
  • Pages: 1082-1092
  • First Published: 19 April 2018

Systemic sclerosis and malignancy

Gokhan Sargin,  Taskin Senturk,  Songul Cildag, 
  • Pages: 1093-1097
  • First Published: 19 April 2018

Effect of tumor necrosis factor α inhibitors on spinal radiographic progression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Hyemin Jeong,  Yeong Hee Eun,  In Young Kim,  Eun-Jung Park,  Hyungjin Kim,  Jaejoon Lee,  Chan Hong Jeon,  Eun-Mi Koh,  Hoon-Suk Cha, 
  • Pages: 1098-1105
  • First Published: 02 April 2018

The economic impacts of using adalimumab (Humira®) for reducing pain in people with ankylosing spondylitis: A microsimulation study for Australia

Deborah Schofield,  Rupendra Shrestha,  Michelle Cunich, 
  • Pages: 1106-1113
  • First Published: 03 April 2018

Demographic and clinical features of Behcet's disease in Azerbaijan

Alireza Khabbazi,  Hamid Noshad,  Farid K. Shayan,  Hadise Kavandi,  Mehrzad Hajialiloo,  Sousan Kolahi, 
  • Pages: 1114-1119
  • First Published: 28 October 2014

Pro-inflammatory cytokine single nucleotide polymorphisms in Kawasaki disease

Raheleh Assari,  Yahya Aghighi,  Vahid Ziaee,  Maryam Sadr,  Farzaneh Rahmani,  Arezou Rezaei,  Zeinab Sadr,  Mohammad Hassan Moradinejad,  Seyed Reza Raeeskarami,  Nima Rezaei, 
  • Pages: 1120-1126
  • First Published: 25 July 2016

Survey of musculoskeletal abnormalities in school-going children of hilly and foothill regions of Eastern Himalayas using the pediatric Gait, Arms, Legs, Spine screening method

Tapas Kumar Sabui,  Moumita Samanta,  Rakesh Kumar Mondal,  Indira Banerjee,  Abishek Saren,  Avijit Hazra, 
  • Pages: 1127-1134
  • First Published: 16 June 2016

Expert Comments

Recent advances in pediatric rheumatology: July to September 2017

Rakesh Kumar Pilania,  Dharmagat Bhattarai,  Surjit Singh, 
  • Pages: 1135-1137
  • First Published: 02 April 2018

Recent advances in pediatric rheumatology: October – December 2017

Rakesh K. Pilania,  Dharmagat Bhattarai,  Surjit Singh, 
  • Pages: 1138-1141
  • First Published: 03 April 2018

APLAR Grand Round Case

Plasma exchange successfully treated macrophage activation syndrome in rheumatoid factor-positive polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis with co-existing pneumonia

Lianjie Shi,  Fanlei Hu,  Chuanhui Xu,  Huaqun Zhu,  Di Qie,  Chuanjie Yuan,  Yuhong Tao,  Hanmin Liu, 
  • Pages: 1142-1145
  • First Published: 22 March 2017

Correspondence

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Septic arthritis of the knee due to Gemella morbillorum

Marie-Charlotte Desmottes,  Quentin Brehier,  Ewa Bertolini,  Irène Monteiro,  William Terreaux, 
  • Pages: 1146-1147
  • First Published: 17 April 2018