Arthritis Care & Research
Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
Volume 14, No.2, April 2001
EDITORIAL
109 Issues in Cross-Cultural Research: An Overview
Stephen A. Paget and Laura Robbins
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
111 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
122 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
129 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
136 Preference for Disclosure of Information Among Patients
With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Liana Fraenkel, Sidney Bogardus, John Concato, and David
Felson
140 Giant Cell Arteritis With Low Erythrocyte Sedimentation
Rate: Frequency of Occurrence in a Population-Based Study
Carlo Salvarani and Gene G. Hunder
146 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
151 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
159 Development and Preliminary Validation of a Children’s
Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale
J. H. Barlow, K. L. Shaw, and C. C. Wright
167 An English and Spanish Quality of Life Measure
for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Leda Layo Danao, Geraldine V. Padilla, and Dorothy
A. Johnson
174 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
183 The Onset of Generalized Osteoarthritis in
Older Women: A Qualitative Approach
P. Okma-Keulen and M. Hopman-Rock
191 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
COMMENTARY
203 Sociocultural Issues in Clinical Research
Kemi Brooks, Barri J. Fessler, Holly Bastian, and Graciela
S. Alarcón
A Announcements
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.]
