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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

EDITORIAL

2002 Exercise and Physical Activity Conference, St. Louis, Missouri: Exercise and Arthritis "We Know a Little Bit About a Lot of Things" 

Marian A. Minor  1

ORIGINAL ARTICLES 

Alternative Medicine 

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Pediatric Rheumatology Patients

Lorrie E. M. Hagen, Rayfel Schneider, Derek Stephens, Diana Modrusan, and Brian M. Feldman 3

Dermatomyositis

Disease Activity Score for Children With Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Reliability and Validity Evidence 

Rita K. Bode, Marisa S. Klein-Gitelman, Michael L. Miller, Toula S. Lechman, and Lauren M. Pachman  7

Lupus Erythematosus 

Evidence for Aerobic Insufficiency in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Randall E. Keyser, Violeta Rus, William Todd Cade, Neeta Kalappa, Raymond H. Flores, and Barry S. Handwerger 16

Osteoarthritis

Quality of Well-Being in Older People With Osteoarthritis

Erik J. Groessl, Robert M. Kaplan, and Terry A. Cronan  23

Isometric Muscle Force Measurement for Clinicians Treating Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Knee 

Marlene Fransen, Jack Crosbie, and John Edmonds 29

Preoperative Predictors of Locomotor Ability Two Months After Total Knee Arthroplasty for Severe Osteoarthritis 

Eric Parent and Helene Moffet  36

Patient-Physician Relationship 

Use of the Trust in Physician Scale in Patients With Rheumatic Disease: Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Trust in the Rheumatologist

Janet K. Freburger, Leigh F. Callahan, Shannon S. Currey, and Lynda A. Anderson 51

Rheumatoid Arthritis 

The Assessment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Acceptability of Self-Report Questionnaires in Clinical Practice

Frederick Wolfe, Theodore Pincus, Ann K. Thompson, and Joseph Doyle 59

Costs and Predictors of Costs in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Prevalence-Based Study

Cristina Lajas, Lydia Abasolo, Boutayeb Bellajdel, Cesar Hernandez-Garcia, Loreto Carmona, Emilio Vargas, Pablo Lazaro, and Juan A. Jover 64

Effects of Dynamic Strength Training on Physical Function, Valpar 9 Work Sample Test, and Working Capacity in Patients With Recent-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arja Hakkinen, Tuulikki Sokka, Anna-Maria Lietsalmi, Hannu Kautiainen, and Pekka Hannonen  71

Development of a New Instrument for Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Cedars-Sinai Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument (CSHQ-RA)

Michael H. Weisman, Harold D. Paulus, Simcha M. Russak, Deborah P. Lubeck, Chiun-Fang Chiou, Nishan Sengupta, Joshua J. Ofman, Jeff Borenstein, Alyson B. Moadel, and Cathy D. Sherbourne  78

Scleroderma

Autoantibodies Against B23, a Nucleolar Phosphoprotein, Occur in Scleroderma and Are Associated With Pulmonary Hypertension

Danielle B. Ulanet, Fredrick M. Wigley, Allan C. Gelber, and Antony Rosen  85

Treatment of Polyarteritis Nodosa and Microscopic Polyangiitis With Poor Prognosis Factors: A Prospective Trial Comparing Glucocorticoids and Six or Twelve Cyclophosphamide Pulses in Sixty-Five Patients 

Loic Guillevin, Pascal Cohen, Alfred Mahr, Jean-Pierre Arene, Luc Mouthon, Xavier Puechal, Edouard Pertuiset, Brigitte Gilson, Mohamed Hamidou, Patricia Lanoux, Alain Bruet, Marc Ruivard, Philippe Vanhille, Jean-Francois Cordier, and the French Vasculitis Study Group  93

SPECIAL ARTICLES 

The Costs of Arthritis

Dorothy D. Dunlop, Larry M. Manheim, Edward H. Yelin, Jing Song, and Rowland W. Chang  101

Disability Models: Implications for Arthritis Exercise and Physical Activity Interventions

Alan M. Jette and Julie J. Keysor 114

Work Group Recommendations: 2002 Exercise and Physical Activity Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
Session I, Arthritis and Disability: Impact and Consequences 121

Major Public Health Benefits of Physical Activity 

Caroline A. Macera, Jennifer M. Hootman, and Joseph E. Sniezek  122

Physical Activity Levels Among the General US Adult Population and in Adults With and Without Arthritis

Jennifer M. Hootman, Caroline A. Macera, Sandra A. Ham, Charles G. Helmick, and Joseph E. Sniezek 129

Correlates of Physical Activity: Who's Active and Who's Not?

Amy A. Eyler 136

Work Group Recommendations: 2002 Exercise and Physical Activity Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
Session II, The Problems and Challenges of Inactivity 141

LETTERS

Moses: Did He Inherit the Spondylarthritis of the Pharaohs? 

Thierry Appelboom and Anthony Russell 142

Comment on the "Fibromyalgia" Label: More Cons Than Pros

Stephen G. Gelfand  144

Reply 

Kevin P. White, Manfred Harth, Warren Nielson, Mark Speechley, and Truls Ostbye 144

Risk Factors for Positive Minor Salivary Gland Biopsy Findings in Sjogren's Syndrome and Dry Mouth Patients: Something New?

Marcello Govoni, Francesco Trotta, and Luigi Cavazzini 145

Enthesitis of Spondylarthritis Can Masquerade as Osgood-Schlatter Disease By Radiographic Findings

Ignazio Olivieri, Angela Padula, Vincenzo Giasi, Enrico Scarano 147

Erratum 148

ANNOUNCEMENTS 13A

Cover image: These are award-winning images from the 2002 American College of Rheumatology slide contest. The photomicrograph on the left is a high magnification ([times]120) view of a masson stained cross-section of a digital artery in a patient with diffuse scleroderma and digital ischemia. There is intimal proliferation and obliteration of the arterial lumen due to collagen deposition. The image on the right from the same patient shows a hematoxylin-eosin stained low magnification ([times]15) view of a digital artery demonstrating thrombus formation due to endothelial-cell dysfunction, increased platelet activity and increased thrombogenicity in scleroderma.

Submitted by Petros Efthimiou, MD
New York, New York