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SLE, hydroxychloroquine and no SLE patients with COVID-19: a comment
  1. Beuy Joob1,
  2. Viroj Wiwanitkit2
  1. 1 Medical Center, Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok, Thailand
  2. 2 Department of Community Medicine, Dr DY Patil University, Pune, Maharastra, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Beuy Joob, Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok 10140, Thailand; beuyjoob{at}hotmail.com

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Inter-relationship between COVID-19 and rheumatic diseases is an interesting topic in clinical rheumatology. We found that article ‘Clinical course of COVID-19 in a series of patients with chronic arthritis treated with immunosuppressive targeted therapies’ is informative. Monti et al suggested for ‘avoiding the unjustifiable preventive withdrawal of DMARDs, which could lead to an increased risk of relapses and morbidity from the chronic rheumatological condition’. 1 Whether standard therapy for rheumatic diseases have any effect on …

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  • Contributors BJ and VW equally contributed to the work and approved for final submission.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, conduct, reporting or dissemination plans of this research.

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