CLINICAL SCIENCE A close association of body cell mass loss with disease activity and disability in Chinese patients with rheumatoid arthritis
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Yi-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hua Chen, Chia-Wei Hsieh, Tsu-Yi Hsieh, Joung-Liang Lan, Der-Yuan Chen I Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung-Kang Road, Taichung City, Taiwan. II Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan. III Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. IV School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taiwan. V Institute of Biomedical Science, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011