Mortality in rheumatoid arthritis patients with disease onset in the 1980s

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-14

  Lindqvist, Elisabet ^a   Eberhardt, Kerstin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0033061267     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.58.1.11     Document Type: Article

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