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Arthritis Care & Research

Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

Volume 49, No. 1, February 2003


EDITORIAL

1 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 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES 

Alternative Medicine 

3 Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Pediatric Rheumatology Patients
Lorrie E. M. Hagen, Rayfel Schneider, Derek Stephens, Diana Modrusan, and Brian M. Feldman 

Dermatomyositis

7 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 

Lupus Erythematosus 

16 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 

Osteoarthritis

23 Quality of Well-Being in Older People With Osteoarthritis
Erik J. Groessl, Robert M. Kaplan, and Terry A. Cronan 

29 Isometric Muscle Force Measurement for Clinicians Treating Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Knee 
Marlene Fransen, Jack Crosbie, and John Edmonds

36 Preoperative Predictors of Locomotor Ability Two Months After Total Knee Arthroplasty for Severe Osteoarthritis 
Eric Parent and Helene Moffet 

Patient-Physician Relationship 

51 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

Rheumatoid Arthritis 

59 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 

64 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 

71 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 

78 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 

Scleroderma

85 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 

93 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 
Lo|fic 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 

SPECIAL ARTICLES 

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

114 Disability Models: Implications for Arthritis Exercise and Physical Activity Interventions
Alan M. Jette and Julie J. Keysor 

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

122 Major Public Health Benefits of Physical Activity 
Caroline A. Macera, Jennifer M. Hootman, and Joseph E. Sniezek 

129 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 

136 Correlates of Physical Activity: Who's Active and Who's Not?
Amy A. Eyler

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

LETTERS

142 Moses: Did He Inherit the Spondylarthritis of the Pharaohs? 
Thierry Appelboom and Anthony Russell 

144 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

145 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 

147 Enthesitis of Spondylarthritis Can Masquerade as Osgood-Schlatter Disease By Radiographic Findings
Ignazio Olivieri, Angela Padula, Vincenzo Giasi, Enrico Scarano 

148 Erratum

13A ANNOUNCEMENTS

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