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Arthritis Care & Research

Official Journal of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals

VOLUME 13, No. 5, October 2000


EDITORIALS

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

252 Osteoarthritis Treatment Approaches, Research Methodologies, and Agenda: Do We Need to Re-Invent the Wheel?
John D. Bradley

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

255 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

262 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

270 Physical Function Among Older Adults with Knee Pain: The Role of Pain Coping Skills
Stephen R. Rapp, W. Jack Rejeski, and Mike E. Miller

280 Comparison of the Responsiveness of Symptomatic Outcome Measures in Knee Osteoarthritis
Stephanie Gentelle-Bonnassies, Philippe Le Claire, Maryse Mezieres, Xavier Ayral, and Maxime Dougados

286 Vessel Wall Morphometry in Giant Cell Arteritis
C. Nordborg and V. Petursdottir

291 Reliability of the Six-Minute Walk Test in People with Fibromyalgia
Brenda A. Pankoff, Tom J. Overend, S. Deborah Lucy, and Kevin P. White

296 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

304 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

312 Exploring the Priorities of Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Deborah Tallon, Jiri Chard, and Paul Dieppe

CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FIELD

320 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

BRIEF REPORT

330 The Effects of Bone Density Testing at Health Fairs on Awareness and Treatment of Osteoporosis
Joan L. Boyd, Ralph Rothenberg, and John Holcomb

CASE REPORT

333 Proximal Symphalangism Associated with Conductive Hearing Loss
Hideto Akama, Masaya Kiyotaki, and Shinji Motojima

LETTERS

335 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

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

336 Reply
Eric L. Matteson

337 ANNOUNCEMENTS