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The likelihood of persistent arthritis increases with the level of anti-citrullinated peptide antibody and immunoglobulin M rheumatoid factor: a longitudinal study of 376 patients with very early undifferentiated arthritis

INTRODUCTION: We wanted to assess the importance of the levels of anti-citrullinated peptide antibody (anti-CCP) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) rheumatoid factor (RF) in predicting development of persistent arthritis from undifferentiated arthritis (UA), and to investigate whether there is an added pred...

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Autores principales: Mjaavatten, Maria D, Heijde, Désirée van der, Uhlig, Till, Haugen, Anne J, Nygaard, Halvor, Sidenvall, Göran, Helgetveit, Knut, Kvien, Tore K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2911852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20444271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar2995