Multiple extra-articular manifestations are associated with poor survival in patients with rheumatoid arthritis [4]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1533-1534

  Turesson, C ^a   McClelland, R L ^b   Christianson, T J H ^b   Matteson, E L ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; EPISCLERITIS; FELTY SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PERICARDITIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERITIS; SURVIVAL; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750319229     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.052803     Document Type: Letter

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