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Response to: ‘Inflammatory and non-inflammatory triggers of acute coronary syndromes’ by Eyuboglu
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  1. Helga Westerlind1,
  2. Marie Holmqvist1,
  3. Lotta Ljung1,2,
  4. Thomas Frisell1,
  5. Johan Askling1,3
  1. 1 Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  2. 2 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  3. 3 Department of Rheumatology, Theme Infection and Inflammation, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
  1. Correspondence to Dr Helga Westerlind, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Solna, Sweden; Helga.Westerlind{at}ki.se

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215293

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