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Arthritis Care & Research

Official Journal of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals

Vol. 11, No. 2, April 1998


EDITORIAL

77 Integration of Stress Research in Rheumatoid Arthritis: From Alexander to Zautra and Back Again
Teresa J. Brady

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

80 The Relationships of Cognitive Coping and Pain Control Beliefs to Pain and Adjustment Among African-American and Caucasian Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Margaret S. Jordan, Mark A. Lumley, and James C. C. Leisen

89 A Comparison of IgM Rheumatoid Factor by Nephelometry and Latex Methods: Clinical and Laboratory Significance
Frederick Wolfe

94 Treating Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis with Exercise Therapy: A Central Role for Self-Efficacy and Pain
W. Jack Rejeski, Walter H. Ettinger, Jr., Kathleen Martin, and Timothy Morgan

102 Sexual and Physical Abuse in Women with Fibromyalgia: Association with Outpatient Health Care Utilization and Pain Medication Usage
Ronald W. Alexander, Laurence A. Bradley, Graciela S. Alarcón, Mireya Triana-Alexander, Leslie A. Aaron, Kristin R. Alberts, Michelle Y. Martin, and Katharine E. Stewart

116 Validation of Questionnaire-Based Response Criteria of Treatment Efficacy in the Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Axel Finckh, Alfredo Morabia, Christophe Deluze, and Thomas Vischer

REVIEW ARTICLES

124 The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis
Brian D. Golden

135 Stress and Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Integrative Review
Bruce Huyser and Jerry C. Parker

CASE REPORT

146 Seropositive, Symmetric Polyarthritis in a Patient with Poorly Differentiated Lung Carcinoma: Carcinomatous Polyarthritis, Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy, or Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Yolanda Farhey and Michael Luggen

CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FIELD

150 A Description and Evaluation of the Web Page of the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
John C. Reid, Robin J. Nuttall, Susan E. Hazelwood, Robert A. Logan, and Jerry C. Parker

154 ANNOUNCEMENTS