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Siblings of patients with rheumatoid arthritis have an increased mortality rate: a Swedish cohort study.
RMD open - 1 May 2020
Westerlind Helga, Delcoigne Bénédicte, Askling Johan
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the mortality among siblings of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and put any excess mortality among these in relation to the mortality among patients with RA. METHODS: Using prospective nation-wide registers, we identified patients diagnosed with new-onset RA 2001-2017 (n=8137), patients with prevalent RA 2006-2017 (n=25 464), matched general population comparator subjects to all RA...
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