Quality of Life and Prevalence of Arthritis Reported by 5,795 Members of the Nordic Psoriasis Associations
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1Department of Dermatology and 2Psychooncology Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, 3Department of Dermatology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, 4Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Reykjavik, Iceland, 5Department of Dermatology, Örebro Medical Centre Hospital, Sweden, 6Department of Dermatology, Rikshospitalet , Oslo, Norway and the 7Blue Lagoon Psoriasis Treatment Centre and Department of Dermatology, University of Dermatology, University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland (*representing the Faeroe Islands)
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