Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Rheumatoid Arthritis
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an early stage (Hench, 1949). Hitherto it has not been practicable to establish the incidence of spontaneous arrest with any degree of certainty (Snorrason, 1950). In investigating the morbidity of the lesion, one of our chief difficulties has been to obtain a sufficiently large amount of patient material controlled by the same criteria (preferably by the same examiner) for a long period. Vario...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0002-9343
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2008.06.011