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Vol 11 No 1
Research article
Women, men, and rheumatoid arthritis: analyses of disease
activity, disease characteristics, and treatments in the QUEST-RA
Study
Tuulikki Sokka
1
, Sergio Toloza
2
, ... Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology,
Euroclinic of Athens, Athanasiadou 9, 11521, Athens, Greece
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Department of Internal Me...
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and to writing the paper. AIP participated in the statistical anal-
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