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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

EDITORIAL

Issues in Cross-Cultural Research: An Overview

Stephen A. Paget and Laura Robbins 109

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Quality of Life Profiles in the First Years of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results From the EURIDISS Longitudinal Study

Th. P. B. M. Suurmeijer, M. Waltz, T. Moum, F. Guillemin, F. L. P. van Sonderen, S. Briançon, R. Sanderman, and W. J. A. van den Heuvel 111

Effects of Stress Management on Pain Behavior in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Karen D. Multon, Jerry C. Parker, Karen L. Smarr, Renee C. Stucky, Gregory Petroski, John E. Hewett, Gail E. Wright, Soo Hyun Rhee, and Sara E. Walker 122

Cardiac Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case-Control Transesophageal Echocardiography Study in 30 Patients

Claudie Guedes, Patricia Bianchi-Fior, Bertrand Cormier, Béatrice Barthelemy, Anne-Christine Rat, and Marie-Christophe Boissier 129

Preference for Disclosure of Information Among Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Liana Fraenkel, Sidney Bogardus, John Concato, and David Felson 136

Giant Cell Arteritis With Low Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate: Frequency of Occurrence in a Population-Based Study

Carlo Salvarani and Gene G. Hunder 140

Open Trial of Methotrexate as Treatment for Autoimmune Hearing Loss

Eric L. Matteson, David A. Fabry, George W. Facer, Charles W. Beatty, Colin L. W. Driscoll, Scott E. Strome, and Thomas J. McDonald 146

Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis: A Comparison With Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Janice A. Husted, Dafna D. Gladman, Vernon T. Farewell, and Richard J. Cook 151

Development and Preliminary Validation of a Children’s Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale

J. H. Barlow, K. L. Shaw, and C. C. Wright 159

An English and Spanish Quality of Life Measure for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Leda Layo Danao, Geraldine V. Padilla, and Dorothy A. Johnson 167

Use of the Americans With Disabilities Act by Persons With Rheumatic Diseases and Factors Associated With Use

Saralynn H. Allaire, Stephen R. Evans, Michael P. LaValley, and Daniel M. Merrigan 174

The Onset of Generalized Osteoarthritis in Older Women: A Qualitative Approach

P. Okma-Keulen and M. Hopman-Rock 183

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Three Ethnic Groups. VIII. Predictors of Early Mortality in the LUMINA Cohort

Graciela S. Alarcón, Gerald McGwin, Jr., Holly M. Bastian, Jeffrey Roseman, Jeffrey Lisse, Barri J. Fessler, Alan W. Friedman, and John D. Reveille, for the LUMINA Study Group 191

COMMENTARY

Sociocultural Issues in Clinical Research

Kemi Brooks, Barri J. Fessler, Holly Bastian, and Graciela S. Alarcón 203

Announcements 8A

Cover illustration: Mural "The History of Cardiology", painted by Diego Rivera in 1943-1944 upon request of Dr. Ignacio Chavez, the founder of the National Cardiology Institute of Mexico. The message is that scientific progress has not been the patrimony of any race or any nationalistic culture. It is the genius of the people of every time that has developed universal culture. The mural also indicates the ascending and difficult trend in knowledge. The bottom panels depict ancient healers from Africa and from Meso-America administering herb extracts. The active products of these herbs are still used in modern medicine.

—Manuel Martinez-Lavin, MD
 [Reproduced with permission of the General Director of the National Cardiology Institute of Mexico.]