Background: Current response criteria in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) usually assess only three
patient-reported outcomes (PROs): pain, functional disability and patient global assessment. …

OBJECTIVES: The French Society of Rheumatology initiated a large national multicenter,
longitudinal and prospective cohort, the so-called “ESPOIR cohort study” in order to set up …

… N Rincheval5, … = 13) of patients in sustained remission had relevant progression of damage,
and 15% (n = 28) developed erosions in a previously unaffected joint. Thus, patients without …

… We thank N. Rincheval for managing the data and monitoring the cohort centers with great
expertise for over a decade. Finally, we are indebted to J. Benessiano, Paris Bichat, who is …

… When we considered patients with events (n=65) and compared patients with and without
GC by DAS-28-CRP, those with GC and moderate to high disease activity (DAS-28-CRP score …

Objectives To determine predictors of short-term radiographic progression in an inception
cohort of patients with early arthritis. Methods Patients presenting with synovitis of at least two …

… A total of 38 patients who were seronegative at baseline showed RF (n = 30), anti-CCP2 (n
= 7), or both auto-antibodies (n = 1) during the 3 years of follow-up and were considered …

… Deaths were related to myocardial infarction (n = 1), cancer or malignant blood diseases (n
= 6), multi-system organ failure (n = 1), rupture of oesophageal varices (n = 1), natural death (…

… We thank N. Rincheval for data management and expert monitoring. We also thank the
French rheumatologists who referred their patients to the ESPOIR cohort in the following …

Background In 2010, new classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were developed.
Objective To assess agreement between 1987 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) …