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Methotrexate and relative risk of dementia amongst patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multi-national multi-database case-control study
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Background Inflammatory processes have been shown to play a role in dementia. To understand this role, we selected two anti-inflammatory drugs (methotrexate and sulfasalazine) to study their association with dementia risk.
Methods A retrospective matched case-control study of patients over 50 with rheumatoid arthritis (486 dementia cases and 641 controls) who were identified from electronic health records in the UK, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlan...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Alzheimer's Research and Therapy Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Article number:
- 38
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-19
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- ISSN:
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1758-9193
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1095388
- Local pid:
- pubs:1095388
- Deposit date:
- 2020-03-20
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- Newby et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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