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Oral glucocorticoid therapy and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective cohort study

Previous studies of glucocorticoid (GC) therapy and mortality have had inconsistent results and have not considered possible perimortal bias—a type of protopathic bias where illness in the latter stages of life influences GC exposure, and might affect the observed relationship between GC use and dea...

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Autores principales: Movahedi, Mohammad, Costello, Ruth, Lunt, Mark, Pye, Stephen Richard, Sergeant, Jamie Christopher, Dixon, William Gregory
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5065607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27256352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-016-0167-1