Prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in Italy: The Chiavari study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 315-318

  Cimmino, Marco A ^a,b   Parisi, Maria ^a   Moggiana, Gianluigi ^a   Mela, Giuseppe S ^a   Accardo, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031876692     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.57.5.315     Document Type: Article

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