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Research Papers

Multivariate relationships between pain intensity and other aspects of health in rheumatoid arthritis–cross sectional and five year longitudinal analyses (the Swedish TIRA project)

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Pages 1429-1438 | Accepted 01 Aug 2007, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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