2023

Porter, D., Jain, S., Qian, E., Morton, F. R. and McInnes, I. (2023) Time-varying risks of infection in patients as they proceed through the phases of ‘pre-RA’: results from the Scottish Early RA inception cohort. RMD Open, 9(4), e003224. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003224) (PMID:37996122)

Nyirenda, M. H., Nijjar, J. S., Frleta-Gilchrist, M., Gilchrist, D. S., Porter, D., Siebert, S. , Goodyear, C. S. and McInnes, I. B. (2023) JAK inhibitors disrupt T cell-induced proinflammatory macrophage activation. RMD Open, 9(1), e002671. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002671) (PMID:36599629) (PMCID:PMC9815080)

McKeigue, P. M., Porter, D., Hollick, R. J., Ralston, S. H., McAllister, D. A. and Colhoun, H. M. (2023) Risk of severe COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases treated with immunosuppressive therapy in Scotland. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 52(4), pp. 412-417. (doi: 10.1080/03009742.2022.2063376) (PMID:35549809)

2021

Nijjar, J. S., Morton, F. R. , Bang, H., Buckley, C. D., van der Heijde, D., Gilmour, A., Paterson, C., McInnes, I. B. , Porter, D. and Raza, K. (2021) The impact of autoantibodies against citrullinated, carbamylated, and acetylated peptides on radiographic progression in patients with new-onset rheumatoid arthritis: an observational cohort study. Lancet Rheumatology, 3(4), e284-e293. (doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30381-7) (PMID:34604794) (PMCID:PMC7611758)

2020

Fragoulis, G. E., Cavanagh, J. , Tindell, A., Derakhshan, M., Paterson, C., Porter, D., McInnes, I. B. and Siebert, S. (2020) Depression and anxiety in an Early Rheumatoid Arthritis inception cohort. Associations with demographic, socioeconomic and disease features. RMD Open, 6, e001376. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2020-001376) (PMID:33127857)

Porter, D., Basu, N. and Siebert, S. (2020) Classification criteria: time for a rethink? Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(10), pp. 1264-1266. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217769) (PMID:32699035)

Daly, R. et al. (2020) Changes in plasma itaconate elevation in early rheumatoid arthritis patients elucidates disease activity associated macrophage activation. Metabolites, 10(6), 241. (doi: 10.3390/metabo10060241) (PMID:32531990) (PMCID:PMC7344783)

2018

Tom, B. D.M., Symmons, D. and RA-MAP Consortium:, (2018) Novel methodology to discern predictors of remission and patterns of disease activity over time using rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials data. RMD Open, 4(2), e000721. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000721) (PMID:30487994) (PMCID:PMC6241979)

Fragoulis, G. E., Paterson, C., Gilmour, A., Derakhshan, M. H., McInnes, I. B. , Porter, D. and Siebert, S. (2018) Neutropaenia in early rheumatoid arthritis: frequency, predicting factors, natural history and outcome. RMD Open, 4(2), e000739. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000739) (PMID:30402267) (PMCID:PMC6203094)

Taylor, J. C. et al. (2018) Genome-wide association study of response to methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis patients. Pharmacogenomics Journal, 18(4), pp. 528-538. (doi: 10.1038/s41397-018-0025-5) (PMID:29795407)

2017

Cope, A. P. et al. (2017) The RA-MAP Consortium: a working model for academia-industry collaboration. Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 14, pp. 53-60. (doi: 10.1038/nrrheum.2017.200) (PMID:29213124)

Robertson, J., Porter, D., Sattar, N. , Packard, C. J. , Caslake, M., McInnes, I. and McCarey, D. (2017) Interleukin-6 blockade raises LDL via reduced catabolism rather than via increased synthesis: a cytokine-specific mechanism for cholesterol changes in rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 76(11), pp. 1949-1952. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211708) (PMID:28916714)

Kurowska-Stolarska, M. et al. (2017) MicroRNA-34a dependent regulation of AXL controls the activation of dendritic cells in inflammatory arthritis. Nature Communications, 8, 15877. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms15877) (PMID:28639625) (PMCID:PMC5489689)

McInnes, I. B. , Porter, D. and Siebert, S. (2017) Editorial: choosing new targets for rheumatoid arthritis therapeutics: too interesting to fail? Arthritis and Rheumatology, 69(6), pp. 1131-1134. (doi: 10.1002/art.40082) (PMID:28245351)

Siebert, S. , Porter, D., Paterson, C., Hampson, R., Gaya, D., Latosinska, A., Mischak, H., Schanstra, J., Mullen, W. and McInnes, I. (2017) Urinary proteomics can define distinct diagnostic inflammatory arthritis subgroups. Scientific Reports, 7, 40473. (doi: 10.1038/srep40473) (PMID:28091549) (PMCID:PMC5320079)

2016

Dale, J. et al. (2016) The Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) Study: an inception cohort and biobank. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 17, 461. (doi: 10.1186/s12891-016-1318-y) (PMID:27829394) (PMCID:PMC5103386)

Kronisch, C. et al. (2016) Brief report: predicting functional disability: one-year results from the Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis inception cohort. Arthritis and Rheumatology, 68(7), pp. 1596-1602. (doi: 10.1002/art.39627) (PMID:26866516)

Porter, D. et al. (2016) Tumour necrosis factor inhibition versus rituximab for patients with rheumatoid arthritis who require biological treatment (ORBIT): an open-label, randomised controlled, non-inferiority, trial. Lancet, 388(10041), pp. 239-247. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00380-9) (PMID:27197690)

Dale, J. et al. (2016) Targeting ultrasound remission in early rheumatoid arthritis: the results of the TaSER study, a randomised clinical trial. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 75(6), pp. 1043-1050. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-208941) (PMID:27026689)

Siebert, S. , Lyall, D. M. , Mackay, D. F. , Porter, D. and McInnes, I. B. (2016) Characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis and its association with major comorbid conditions: cross-sectional study of 502 649 UK Biobank participants. RMD Open, 2(1), e000267. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2016-000267) (PMID:27403335) (PMCID:PMC4932291)

2014

Gibson, K. S., Woodburn, J., Porter, D. and Telfer, S. (2014) Functionally optimized orthoses for early rheumatoid arthritis foot disease: a study of mechanisms and patient experience. Arthritis Care and Research, 66(10), pp. 1456-1464. (doi: 10.1002/acr.22060)

Dale, J., Purves, D., McConnachie, A. , McInnes, I. and Porter, D. (2014) Tightening up? Impact of musculoskeletal ultrasound disease activity assessment on early rheumatoid arthritis patients treated using a treat to target strategy. Arthritis Care and Research, 66(1), pp. 19-26. (doi: 10.1002/acr.22218)

Morgan, C.L., Emery, P., Porter, D., Reynolds, A., Young, A., Boyd, H., Poole, C.D. and Currie, C.J. (2014) Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with etanercept with reference to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: long-term safety and survival using prospective, observational data. Rheumatology, 53(1), pp. 186-194. (doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/ket333)

Paul, L., Rafferty, D., Marshall-Mckenna, R. , Gill, J.M.R. , McInnes, I. , Porter, D. and Woodburn, J. (2014) Oxygen cost of walking, physical activity, and sedentary behaviours in rheumatoid arthritis. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 43(1), pp. 28-34. (doi: 10.3109/03009742.2013.802009)

Porter, D., Dale, J. and Sattar, N. (2014) How low to aim in rheumatoid arthritis? Learning from other disciplines. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 73(3), pp. 480-482. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204339)

Stalmach, A. , Johnsson, H., McInnes, I. B. , Husi, H., Klein, J., Dakna, M., Mullen, W. , Mischak, H. and Porter, D. (2014) Identification of urinary peptide biomarkers associated with rheumatoid arthritis. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e104625. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104625) (PMID:25144639) (PMCID:PMC4140712)

2013

Porter, D.R. (2013) Step-up therapy remains an appropriate option. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 72(5), e6. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203242)

2012

Porter, D. (2012) Intensive management of early rheumatoid arthritis: the TICORA and TEAR studies. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 30(Sup 73), S32-S34.

2010

Emery, P., Buch, M.H., Östör, A., Kirkham, B., Taylor, P., Estrach, C., Jenkinson, T., McInnes, I. and Porter, D. (2010) Time for treatment targets in rheumatoid arthritis. British Medical Journal, 341(c4170), p. 267. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.c4170)

Dale, J. and Porter, D. (2010) Optimising the strategy of care in early rheumatoid arthritis. Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology, 24(4), pp. 443-455. (doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2009.11.009)

2008

Kielhorn, A., Porter, D., Diamantopoulos, A. and Lewis, G. (2008) UK cost-utility analysis of rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis that failed to respond adequately to a biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug. Current Medical Research and Opinion, 24(9), pp. 2639-2650. (doi: 10.1185/03007990802321683)

Saunders, S.A., Capell, H.A., Stirling, A., Vallance, R., Kincaid, W., McMahon, A.D. and Porter, D.R. (2008) Triple therapy in early active rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial comparing step-up and parallel treatment strategies. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 58(5), pp. 1310-1317. (doi: 10.1002/art.23449)

2004

Capell, H.A., Madhok, R., Hunter, J.A., Porter, D., Morrison, E., Larkin, J., Thomson, E.A., Hampson, R. and Poon, F.W. (2004) Lack of radiological and clinical benefit over two years of low dose prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis: results of a randomised controlled trial. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 63(7), pp. 797-803. (doi: 10.1136/ard.2003.014050)

Articles

Porter, D., Jain, S., Qian, E., Morton, F. R. and McInnes, I. (2023) Time-varying risks of infection in patients as they proceed through the phases of ‘pre-RA’: results from the Scottish Early RA inception cohort. RMD Open, 9(4), e003224. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003224) (PMID:37996122)

Nyirenda, M. H., Nijjar, J. S., Frleta-Gilchrist, M., Gilchrist, D. S., Porter, D., Siebert, S. , Goodyear, C. S. and McInnes, I. B. (2023) JAK inhibitors disrupt T cell-induced proinflammatory macrophage activation. RMD Open, 9(1), e002671. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002671) (PMID:36599629) (PMCID:PMC9815080)

McKeigue, P. M., Porter, D., Hollick, R. J., Ralston, S. H., McAllister, D. A. and Colhoun, H. M. (2023) Risk of severe COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases treated with immunosuppressive therapy in Scotland. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 52(4), pp. 412-417. (doi: 10.1080/03009742.2022.2063376) (PMID:35549809)

Nijjar, J. S., Morton, F. R. , Bang, H., Buckley, C. D., van der Heijde, D., Gilmour, A., Paterson, C., McInnes, I. B. , Porter, D. and Raza, K. (2021) The impact of autoantibodies against citrullinated, carbamylated, and acetylated peptides on radiographic progression in patients with new-onset rheumatoid arthritis: an observational cohort study. Lancet Rheumatology, 3(4), e284-e293. (doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30381-7) (PMID:34604794) (PMCID:PMC7611758)

Fragoulis, G. E., Cavanagh, J. , Tindell, A., Derakhshan, M., Paterson, C., Porter, D., McInnes, I. B. and Siebert, S. (2020) Depression and anxiety in an Early Rheumatoid Arthritis inception cohort. Associations with demographic, socioeconomic and disease features. RMD Open, 6, e001376. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2020-001376) (PMID:33127857)

Porter, D., Basu, N. and Siebert, S. (2020) Classification criteria: time for a rethink? Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(10), pp. 1264-1266. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217769) (PMID:32699035)

Daly, R. et al. (2020) Changes in plasma itaconate elevation in early rheumatoid arthritis patients elucidates disease activity associated macrophage activation. Metabolites, 10(6), 241. (doi: 10.3390/metabo10060241) (PMID:32531990) (PMCID:PMC7344783)

Tom, B. D.M., Symmons, D. and RA-MAP Consortium:, (2018) Novel methodology to discern predictors of remission and patterns of disease activity over time using rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials data. RMD Open, 4(2), e000721. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000721) (PMID:30487994) (PMCID:PMC6241979)

Fragoulis, G. E., Paterson, C., Gilmour, A., Derakhshan, M. H., McInnes, I. B. , Porter, D. and Siebert, S. (2018) Neutropaenia in early rheumatoid arthritis: frequency, predicting factors, natural history and outcome. RMD Open, 4(2), e000739. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000739) (PMID:30402267) (PMCID:PMC6203094)

Taylor, J. C. et al. (2018) Genome-wide association study of response to methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis patients. Pharmacogenomics Journal, 18(4), pp. 528-538. (doi: 10.1038/s41397-018-0025-5) (PMID:29795407)

Cope, A. P. et al. (2017) The RA-MAP Consortium: a working model for academia-industry collaboration. Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 14, pp. 53-60. (doi: 10.1038/nrrheum.2017.200) (PMID:29213124)

Robertson, J., Porter, D., Sattar, N. , Packard, C. J. , Caslake, M., McInnes, I. and McCarey, D. (2017) Interleukin-6 blockade raises LDL via reduced catabolism rather than via increased synthesis: a cytokine-specific mechanism for cholesterol changes in rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 76(11), pp. 1949-1952. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211708) (PMID:28916714)

Kurowska-Stolarska, M. et al. (2017) MicroRNA-34a dependent regulation of AXL controls the activation of dendritic cells in inflammatory arthritis. Nature Communications, 8, 15877. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms15877) (PMID:28639625) (PMCID:PMC5489689)

McInnes, I. B. , Porter, D. and Siebert, S. (2017) Editorial: choosing new targets for rheumatoid arthritis therapeutics: too interesting to fail? Arthritis and Rheumatology, 69(6), pp. 1131-1134. (doi: 10.1002/art.40082) (PMID:28245351)

Siebert, S. , Porter, D., Paterson, C., Hampson, R., Gaya, D., Latosinska, A., Mischak, H., Schanstra, J., Mullen, W. and McInnes, I. (2017) Urinary proteomics can define distinct diagnostic inflammatory arthritis subgroups. Scientific Reports, 7, 40473. (doi: 10.1038/srep40473) (PMID:28091549) (PMCID:PMC5320079)

Dale, J. et al. (2016) The Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) Study: an inception cohort and biobank. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 17, 461. (doi: 10.1186/s12891-016-1318-y) (PMID:27829394) (PMCID:PMC5103386)

Kronisch, C. et al. (2016) Brief report: predicting functional disability: one-year results from the Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis inception cohort. Arthritis and Rheumatology, 68(7), pp. 1596-1602. (doi: 10.1002/art.39627) (PMID:26866516)

Porter, D. et al. (2016) Tumour necrosis factor inhibition versus rituximab for patients with rheumatoid arthritis who require biological treatment (ORBIT): an open-label, randomised controlled, non-inferiority, trial. Lancet, 388(10041), pp. 239-247. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00380-9) (PMID:27197690)

Dale, J. et al. (2016) Targeting ultrasound remission in early rheumatoid arthritis: the results of the TaSER study, a randomised clinical trial. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 75(6), pp. 1043-1050. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-208941) (PMID:27026689)

Siebert, S. , Lyall, D. M. , Mackay, D. F. , Porter, D. and McInnes, I. B. (2016) Characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis and its association with major comorbid conditions: cross-sectional study of 502 649 UK Biobank participants. RMD Open, 2(1), e000267. (doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2016-000267) (PMID:27403335) (PMCID:PMC4932291)

Gibson, K. S., Woodburn, J., Porter, D. and Telfer, S. (2014) Functionally optimized orthoses for early rheumatoid arthritis foot disease: a study of mechanisms and patient experience. Arthritis Care and Research, 66(10), pp. 1456-1464. (doi: 10.1002/acr.22060)

Dale, J., Purves, D., McConnachie, A. , McInnes, I. and Porter, D. (2014) Tightening up? Impact of musculoskeletal ultrasound disease activity assessment on early rheumatoid arthritis patients treated using a treat to target strategy. Arthritis Care and Research, 66(1), pp. 19-26. (doi: 10.1002/acr.22218)

Morgan, C.L., Emery, P., Porter, D., Reynolds, A., Young, A., Boyd, H., Poole, C.D. and Currie, C.J. (2014) Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with etanercept with reference to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: long-term safety and survival using prospective, observational data. Rheumatology, 53(1), pp. 186-194. (doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/ket333)

Paul, L., Rafferty, D., Marshall-Mckenna, R. , Gill, J.M.R. , McInnes, I. , Porter, D. and Woodburn, J. (2014) Oxygen cost of walking, physical activity, and sedentary behaviours in rheumatoid arthritis. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 43(1), pp. 28-34. (doi: 10.3109/03009742.2013.802009)

Porter, D., Dale, J. and Sattar, N. (2014) How low to aim in rheumatoid arthritis? Learning from other disciplines. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 73(3), pp. 480-482. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204339)

Stalmach, A. , Johnsson, H., McInnes, I. B. , Husi, H., Klein, J., Dakna, M., Mullen, W. , Mischak, H. and Porter, D. (2014) Identification of urinary peptide biomarkers associated with rheumatoid arthritis. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e104625. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104625) (PMID:25144639) (PMCID:PMC4140712)

Porter, D.R. (2013) Step-up therapy remains an appropriate option. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 72(5), e6. (doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203242)

Porter, D. (2012) Intensive management of early rheumatoid arthritis: the TICORA and TEAR studies. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 30(Sup 73), S32-S34.

Emery, P., Buch, M.H., Östör, A., Kirkham, B., Taylor, P., Estrach, C., Jenkinson, T., McInnes, I. and Porter, D. (2010) Time for treatment targets in rheumatoid arthritis. British Medical Journal, 341(c4170), p. 267. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.c4170)

Dale, J. and Porter, D. (2010) Optimising the strategy of care in early rheumatoid arthritis. Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology, 24(4), pp. 443-455. (doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2009.11.009)

Kielhorn, A., Porter, D., Diamantopoulos, A. and Lewis, G. (2008) UK cost-utility analysis of rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis that failed to respond adequately to a biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug. Current Medical Research and Opinion, 24(9), pp. 2639-2650. (doi: 10.1185/03007990802321683)

Saunders, S.A., Capell, H.A., Stirling, A., Vallance, R., Kincaid, W., McMahon, A.D. and Porter, D.R. (2008) Triple therapy in early active rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial comparing step-up and parallel treatment strategies. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 58(5), pp. 1310-1317. (doi: 10.1002/art.23449)

Capell, H.A., Madhok, R., Hunter, J.A., Porter, D., Morrison, E., Larkin, J., Thomson, E.A., Hampson, R. and Poon, F.W. (2004) Lack of radiological and clinical benefit over two years of low dose prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis: results of a randomised controlled trial. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 63(7), pp. 797-803. (doi: 10.1136/ard.2003.014050)