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The increasing disease duration of patients at the time of orthopaedic surgery for rheumatoid arthritis

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by a research grant from 38 pharmaceutical companies for the large observational cohort study of RA at the Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University.

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Ethics approval was obtained. These patients have participated in a large-scale Japanese RA cohort project, IORRA. Study details were explained to each patient by rheumatologists during clinic visits, and informed consent was received from each patient.

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  1. Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawada, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-0054, Japan

    Shigeki Momohara, Katsunori Ikari, Kosei Kawakami, Takuji Iwamoto, Eisuke Inoue, Koichiro Yano, Yu Sakuma, Ryo Hiroshima, Asami Tokita, Atsuo Taniguchi & Hisashi Yamanaka

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Momohara, S., Ikari, K., Kawakami, K. et al. The increasing disease duration of patients at the time of orthopaedic surgery for rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatol Int 32, 3323–3324 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-011-2101-x

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