When does the increased mortality risk appear in rheumatoid arthritis? A distributed data analysis comparing mortality in two Canadian provinces

Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is chronic inflammatory arthritis. For decades studies showed that RA patients died earlier than their general population counterparts. Some inception cohorts have failed to detect an increased mortality risk, possibly due to limited follow-up or to improvemen...

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Main Authors: Jessica Widdifield, Sasha Bernatsky, Anjie Huang, Michael Paterson, Eric C Sayre, Diane Lacaille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2018-08-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/688