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Volume 13, No. 5 - October 2000

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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

EDITORIALS

Clues to the Pathogenesis of Giant Cell Arteritis from the Study of the Vessel Wall

Jóhannes Björnsson 249

Osteoarthritis Treatment Approaches, Research Methodologies, and Agenda: Do We Need to Re-Invent the Wheel?

John D. Bradley 252

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Perceptions about Perceived Functional Disabilities and Pain of People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Differences between Patients and Their Spouses and Correlates with Well-Being

Robert P. Riemsma, Erik Taal, and Johannes J. Rasker 255

A Pilot Study on the Effects of Exercise in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Ellen M. Schilling, Dorothy Dunlop, Craig Langman, Philip Greenland, Randal J. Thomas, and Rowland W. Chang 262

Physical Function Among Older Adults with Knee Pain: The Role of Pain Coping Skills

Stephen R. Rapp, W. Jack Rejeski, and Mike E. Miller 270

Comparison of the Responsiveness of Symptomatic Outcome Measures in Knee Osteoarthritis

Stephanie Gentelle-Bonnassies, Philippe Le Claire, Maryse Mezieres, Xavier Ayral, and Maxime Dougados 280

Vessel Wall Morphometry in Giant Cell Arteritis

C. Nordborg and V. Petursdottir 286

Reliability of the Six-Minute Walk Test in People with Fibromyalgia

Brenda A. Pankoff, Tom J. Overend, S. Deborah Lucy, and Kevin P. White 291

The Ability of the Cochin Rheumatoid Arthritis Hand Functional Scale to Detect Change During the Course of Disease

Serge Poiraudeau, Marie Martine Lefevre-Colau, Jacques Fermanian, and Michel Revel 296

A Pilot Study of Body Awareness Programs in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Sally Aspegren Kendall, Kerstin Brolin-Magnusson, Birgitta Sören, BjörnGerdle, and Karl Gustav Henriksson 304

Exploring the Priorities of Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Deborah Tallon, Jiri Chard, and Paul Dieppe 312

CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FIELD

Audience Motivations to Use an Arthritis Website

Robert A. Logan, Robin J. Nuttall, Susan E. Hazelwood, Jerry C. Parker, Jane C. Johnson, John E. Hewett, and John C. Reid 320

BRIEF REPORT

The Effects of Bone Density Testing at Health Fairs on Awareness and Treatment of Osteoporosis

Joan L. Boyd, Ralph Rothenberg, and John Holcomb 330

CASE REPORT

Proximal Symphalangism Associated with Conductive Hearing Loss

Hideto Akama, Masaya Kiyotaki, and Shinji Motojima 333

LETTERS

Late Onset Hypersensitivity to Sulfasalazine in a Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Comment on the Article by Paul et al

Catherine Marino and Elizabeth McDonald 335

Reply

Robert Paul, Ronald A. Cohen, and J. Scott Toder 335

Classification of Vasculitis: Comment on the Review by Matteson
Ulises Mercado 336

Reply

Eric L. Matteson 336

ANNOUNCEMENTS 337