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Paying attention to the preciseness of conclusion
  1. Kai Yuan,
  2. Jianxin Chen,
  3. Tiangang Li,
  4. Anlong Xu
  1. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Anlong Xu, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China; anlong_xu{at}bucm.edu.cn

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206181

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    • Kai Yuan and Jianxin Chen contributed equally to this work and are joint first authors.

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