Macfarlane, Gary J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-3314
Pathan, Ejaz
Siebert, Stefan
Packham, Jonathan
Gaffney, Karl
Choy, Ernest
Sengupta, Raj
Atzeni, Fabiola
Martin, Kathryn R.
Jones, Gareth T.
Dean, Linda E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Arthritis Research UK (21378)
British Society for Rheumatology
Article History
Received: 22 November 2018
Accepted: 25 April 2019
First Online: 20 May 2019
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