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The symptomatic course of foot osteoarthritis phenotypes: an 18-month prospective analysis of community-dwelling older adults. (2017)
Journal Article
Downes, T. J., Chesterton, L., Whittle, R., Roddy, E., Menz, H. B., Marshall, M., & Thomas, M. J. (2018). The symptomatic course of foot osteoarthritis phenotypes: an 18-month prospective analysis of community-dwelling older adults. Arthritis Care and Research, 70(7), 1107-1112. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23502

OBJECTIVE: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous disease with symptom progression at the foot unclear. This study investigated the symptomatic course of three pre-defined foot OA phenotypes over an 18-month period. METHODS: The Clinical Assessment S... Read More about The symptomatic course of foot osteoarthritis phenotypes: an 18-month prospective analysis of community-dwelling older adults..

Factors Influencing Allopurinol Initiation in Primary Care. (2017)
Journal Article
Roddy, Mallen, Clarson, Belcher, & Hider. (2017). Factors Influencing Allopurinol Initiation in Primary Care. Annals of Family Medicine, 15(6), 557 - 560. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.213

Despite guidance on appropriate initiation, urate-lowering therapy is prescribed for only a minority of patients with gout. Electronic health records for 8,142 patients with gout were used to investigate the effect of age, sex, comorbidities, number... Read More about Factors Influencing Allopurinol Initiation in Primary Care..

Feasibility randomised multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy controlled trial of anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist versus intramuscular methylprednisolone for acute gout attacks in patients with chronic kidney disease (ASGARD): protocol st… (2017)
Journal Article
Mallen, & Roddy. (2017). Feasibility randomised multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy controlled trial of anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist versus intramuscular methylprednisolone for acute gout attacks in patients with chronic kidney disease (ASGARD): protocol st…. BMJ Open, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017121

Introduction Acute gout occurs in people with chronic kidney disease, who are commonly older people with comorbidities such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes. Potentially harmful treatments are administered to these vulnerable patients due... Read More about Feasibility randomised multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy controlled trial of anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist versus intramuscular methylprednisolone for acute gout attacks in patients with chronic kidney disease (ASGARD): protocol st….

The British Society for Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout (2017)
Journal Article
Mallen, C., & Roddy, E. (2017). The British Society for Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout. Rheumatology, 56(7), E1-E20. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kex156

OBJECTIVES: We previously found large variations in general practitioner (GP) hypertension treatment probability in oldest-old (>80 years) between countries. We wanted to explore whether differences in country-specific cardiovascular disease (CVD) bu... Read More about The British Society for Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout.

Management of shoulder pain by UK general practitioners (GPs): a national survey (2017)
Journal Article
Roddy, & Van Der Windt. (2017). Management of shoulder pain by UK general practitioners (GPs): a national survey. BMJ Open, e015711 -?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015711

OBJECTIVES: Studies in Canada, the USA and Australia suggested low confidence among general practitioners (GPs) in diagnosing and managing shoulder pain, with frequent use of investigations. There are no comparable studies in the UK; our objective wa... Read More about Management of shoulder pain by UK general practitioners (GPs): a national survey.

GPs' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours regarding exercise for chronic knee pain: a questionnaire survey (2017)
Journal Article
Roddy, E., Cottrell, E., Foster, N. E., Porcheret, M., & Rathod, T. (2017). GPs' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours regarding exercise for chronic knee pain: a questionnaire survey. BMJ Open, 7(6), e014999 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014999

OBJECTIVES:
The aim of this study was to investigate general practitioners' (GPs) attitudes, beliefs and behaviours regarding the use of exercise for patients with chronic knee pain (CKP) attributable to osteoarthritis.

SETTING: Primary care GPs... Read More about GPs' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours regarding exercise for chronic knee pain: a questionnaire survey.

FRI0690 Risk of fracture among patients with gout: a population-based cohort study (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sultan, A. A., Whittle, R., Muller, S., Roddy, E., Mallen, C., Blagojevic-Bucknall, M., Helliwell, T., Hider, S., & Paskins, Z. (2017, June). FRI0690 Risk of fracture among patients with gout: a population-based cohort study. Poster presented at Annual European Congress of Rheumatology

SAT0672 Risk of fragility fracture among patients with psoriasis: a population based matched cohort study from the united kingdom (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paskins, Z., Whittle, R., Sultan, A. A., Muller, S., Helliwell, T., Blagojevic-Bucknall, M., Hider, S., Roddy, E., & Mallen, C. (2017, June). SAT0672 Risk of fragility fracture among patients with psoriasis: a population based matched cohort study from the united kingdom. Poster presented at Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, 14–17 June, 2017