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Some concerns from Turkey
  1. Emre Bilgin1,
  2. İrem Ozarli2,
  3. Levent Kılıç1,
  4. Ertuğrul Çağrı Bölek1,
  5. Gözde Kübra Yardımcı1,
  6. Ömer Karadağ1
  1. 1 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
  2. 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Emre Bilgin, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara 06100, Turkey; dr.emrebilgin{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214739

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    • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

    • Contributors All authors contributed equally.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

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

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