1First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Joint Rheumatology Program, National & Kapodistrian University
of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
2Clinical Research Unit, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, UK,
3Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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