The Journal of Rheumatology's Editor-in-Chief Earl Silverman discusses this month's selection of articles that are most relevant to the clinical rheumatologist.

Included is an excerpt from this month’s Editor’s Picks spotlight interview with authors Lisandro Colantonio, Kenneth Saag, and Marguerite Ryan Irvin from the Department of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA about their and their co-authors' article "Higher Serum Urate Levels Are Associated With an Increased Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death". - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210139

This month’s selections also include:

Ochi, et al: Similarity of Response to Biologics Between Elderly-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis (EORA) and Non-EORA Elderly Patients: From the FIRST Registry- https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.201135

Tanaka, et al: Effects of Denosumab in Japanese Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated With Conventional Antirheumatic Drugs: 36-month Extension of a Phase III Study - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.201376

Ye, et al: Measuring Physical Function in Psoriatic Arthritis: Comparing the Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire to the Health Assessment Questionnaire–Disability Index - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.200927

Concha, et al: Changes in Treatments and Outcomes After Implementation of a National Universal Access Program for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210011

Meara et al: A Case of Chilblains-like Lesions Post SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine? - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210226

Liu: Serum Uric Acid: A Murderer or Bystander for Cardiac-related Mortality? - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210695

Berard and Batthish: Addressing Healthcare Quality in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis With a Universal Access Program - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210658

To read these, and other full articles visit www.jrheum.org.

Music by David Hilowitz