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Lazarini, Argyro http://orcid.org/0009-0006-4689-4152
Argyriou, Evaggelia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-8872
Dania, Vassiliki http://orcid.org/0009-0005-2434-8647
Boki, Kyriaki http://orcid.org/0009-0008-0201-7849
Evangelatos, Gerasimos http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-3093
Iliopoulos, Alexios http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7107-1664
Pappa, Maria http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-0693
Sfikakis, Petros P. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5484-2930
Tektonidou, Maria G. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2238-0975
Georgountzos, Athanasios http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9250-8829
Kaltsonoudis, Euripidis http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-0533
Voulgari, Paraskevi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-2284
Drosos, Alexandros A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-0326
Theotikos, Evaggelos http://orcid.org/0009-0008-2114-0068
Papagoras, Charalampos http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6207-496X
Dimitroulas, Theodoros http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-1642
Garyfallos, Alexandros http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7289-1293
Kataxaki, Evaggelia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2089-4174
Vosvotekas, Georgios http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-117X
Boumpas, Dimitrios http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9812-4671
Hadziyannis, Emilia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-5389
Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2288-3863
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hellenic Rheumatology Society (12085-86)
University of Athens
Article History
Received: 1 November 2023
Accepted: 22 December 2023
First Online: 1 February 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: Ethical approval was provided by the local institutional review boards (IRBs) of participating centers and informed consent was obtained from participating patients.IRB approval was provided by the co-ordinating central center General Hospital of Athens “Hippokration” (reference number: 64/16-Apr-2015) and by the local IRBs of the following participating centres: IRB of “General Hospital Sismanogleio” (reference number: 50/20-Dec-2019), IRB of “General Hospital NIMTS” (reference number: 157/03-Oct-2019), IRB of “Laiko” General Hospital (reference number: 1194/23-Oct-2019), IRB of “General Hospital Gennimatas” (reference number: 30877/30-Oct-2019), IRB of University Hospital of Ioannina, (reference number: 6/24-Mar-2015), IRB of University Hospital of Alexandroupolis (reference number: 11/27-Dec-2019), IRB of “Thriasio General Hospital” (reference number: 340/07-Oct-2019), IRB of "General Hospital of Thessaloniki, EuroMedica” (private practice, reference number: 80/10-Oct-2019), IRB of Attikon Univesrity Hospital (reference number: 103/6-MAR-2014). For the remaining centres, the co-ordinating centers’ IRB approval was deemed sufficient.
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