Direct medical costs and their predictors in persons with rheumatoid
arthritis; a 3 Year Study of 7,527 Patients. Arthritis Rheum. (In Press)
Lymphoma in rheumatoid arthritis; the effect of methotrexate and anti-TNF
therapy in 18,572 patients. Accepted for publication Arthritis Rheum.
Tuberculosis infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the effect of
infliximab therapy. Accepted for publication Arthritis Rheum.
Congestive heart failure in rheumatoid arthritis: Rates, predictors and
the effect of anti-TNF therapy. Under review 2003.
Increase in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease prevalence in
rheumatoid arthritis. J.Rheumatol. 30(1):36-40,2003.
Pain extent and diagnosis: development and validation of the regional
pain scale in 12,799 patients with rheumatic disease. J.Rheumatol.
30(2):269-278,2003.
Predicting mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum.
48(6):1530-1542, 2003.
Toward a definition and method of assessment of treatment failure and
treatment effectiveness: The case of leflunomide versus methotrexate.
J.Rheumatol. 30(8):1725-1732, 2003.
Methotrexate therapy and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis:
a prospective study. Lancet 359:1173-1177, 2002.
The effect of health related quality of life on reported use of health
care resources in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis:
a longitudinal analysis. J.Rheumatol. 29(6):1147-1155, 2002.
Gastro-protective therapy and risk of gastrointestinal ulcers: risk reduction
by COX-2 therapy. J.Rheumatol. 29 (3): 467-473, 2002.
The long-term outcome of osteoarthritis: rates and predictors of joint
space narrowing in symptomatic patients with knee osteoarthritis.
J.Rheumatol. 29 (1): 139-146, 2002.
The psychometrics of functional status questionnaires: room for
improvement. J.Rheumatol. 29 (5): 865-868, 2002.
Increase in lifetime adverse drug reactions, service utilization, and
disease severity among patients who will start COX-2 specific inhibitors:
quantitative assessment of channeling bias and confounding by indication
in 6689 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. J.Rheumatol.
29 (5); 1015-1022,2002.
Radiographic methods in knee osteoarthritis: A further comparison of
semi-flexed (MTP), schuss-tunnel, and weight-bearing antero-posterior
view for joint space narrowing and osteophytes. J.Rheumatol. 29 (12)
2597-2601, 2002.
Neural network based automated algorithm to identify joint locations
on hand/wrists radiographs for arthritis assessments. Med.Phys. 29 (3):
403-411, 2002.
A functional promoter polymorphism in the macrophage migration
inhibitory factor (MIF) gene associated with disease severity in rheumatoid
arthritis. Genes Immun. 3 (3):170-176, 2002.