Arthritis Care & Research
Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
Volume 45, No. 4, August 2001
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
307 Biopsychosocial Mediators
and Moderators of Stress-Health Relationships in Patients With Recently
Diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis
J. Caroline Dekkers, Rinie
Geenen, Andrea W. M. Evers, Floor W. Kraaimaat, Johannes W. J. Bijlsma,
and Guido L. R. Godaert
317 Development of an Instrument
to Measure Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain Scale
(RAPS)
Diana L. Anderson
324 Health Care Utilization
Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Referred to a Rheumatology Center:
Unequal Needs, Unequal Care?
Catharina E. Jacobi, Mattanja
Triemstra, Ines Rupp, Huibert J. Dinant, and Geertrudis A. M. Van Den
Bos
331 Modifiers of Change in
Physical Functioning in Older Adults With Knee Pain: The Observational
Arthritis Study in Seniors (OASIS)
Michael E. Miller, W. Jack
Rejeski, Stephen P. Messier, and Richard F. Loeser
340 Variation in Perceptions
of Treatment and Self-Care Practices in Elderly With Osteoarthritis:
A Comparison Between African American and White Patients
Said A. Ibrahim, Laura A.
Siminoff, Christopher J. Burant, and C. Kent Kwoh
346 Esophageal Involvement
and Pulmonary Manifestations in Systemic Sclerosis
Isabelle Marie, Stephane
Dominique, Herve Levesque, Philippe Ducrotte, Philippe Denis, Marie-France
Hellot, and Hubert Courtois
355 Pain and Pain Relief in
Fibromyalgia Patients Followed for Three Years
Reino Poyhia, Deborah Da
Costa, and Mary-Ann Fitzcharles
362 Psychosocial and Health
Status Variables Independently Predict Health Care Seeking in Fibromyalgia
Brian C. Kersh, Laurence
A. Bradley, Graciela S. Alarcon, Kristin R. Alberts, Adriana Sotolongo,
Michelle Y. Martin, Leslie A. Aaron, Derek F. Dewaal, Marla L. Domino,
William F. Chaplin, Nicole R. Palardy, Leanne R. Cianfrini, and Mireya
Triana-Alexander
372 Rheumatology Patient and
Physician Concordance With Respect to Important Health and Symptom Status
Outcomes
C. Kent Kwoh and Said A.
Ibrahim
378 Volunteers' Experiences
of Becoming Arthritis Self-Management Lay Leaders: ``It's Almost As
If I've Stopped Aging and Started to Get Younger!''
Jenny Hainsworth and Julie
Barlow
384 Smallest Detectable and
Minimal Clinically Important Differences of Rehabilitation Intervention
With Their Implications for Required Sample Sizes Using WOMAC and SF-36
Quality of Life Measurement Instruments in Patients With Osteoarthritis
of the Lower Extremities
Felix Angst, Andre Aeschlimann,
and Gerold Stucki
392 Physical and Exercise
Therapy for Treatment of the Rheumatoid Hand
Amir I. Buljina, Mihra S.
Taljanovic, Dijana M. Avdic, and Tim B. Hunter
398 Use of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine by Older Patients With Arthritis: A Population-Based
Study
Peter J. Kaboli, Bradley
N. Doebbeling, Kenneth G. Saag, and Gary E. Rosenthal
LETTER
404 Rapid Remission of Treatment-Resistant
Ankylosing Spondylitis With Etanercept--A Drug for Refractory Ankylosing
Spondylitis?
H. Richard Barthel
7A ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cover illustration: The first
clear description of rheumatoid arthritis was probably that published
by Landre-Beauvais in 1800, who called it ``la goutte asthenique primitive.''
This work was followed by others, including the famous French neurologist
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). In 1890, he presented a detailed account
of the disease, describing characteristic physical findings of the hands
and the fingers, including those that were later termed "swan neck"
(deformations articulaires du premier type), and "Boutonniere" deformities
(deformations articulaires du deuxieme type). He also provides other
impressive drawings of rheumatoid deformities, degenerative arthritis,
and gout in this volume. The figures presented on the cover of this
issue of Arthritis Care & Research were reproduced from Oeuvres
Competes de J. M. Charcot. Maladies des Vieillarads: Goutte et rhumatisme,
Volume 7; Paris, Lecrosnier et Babe, 1890, page 593. [Submitted by Eric
L. Matteson, MD, MPH, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine,
Rochester, MN 55905]
