TY - JOUR T1 - Cardiovascular effects of hydroxychloroquine: a systematic review and meta-analysis JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212668 SP - annrheumdis-2017-212668 AU - Sylvain Mathieu AU - Bruno Pereira AU - Anne Tournadre AU - Martin Soubrier Y1 - 2017/12/05 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2017/12/06/annrheumdis-2017-212668.abstract N2 - With great interest, we have read Professor Lee’s comments1 concerning our letter ‘Cardiovascular effects of hydroxychloroquine’.2 We completely agree that the relevance of a meta-analysis depends on its completeness, optimally including all published articles and abstracts. Thus, our decision to only search the PubMed database could represent a methodological weakness. However, Rempenault et al3 performed the same meta-analysis with searches of multiple databases (PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library), and … ER -