Anti-rheumatic treatment is not associated with reduction of pentraxin 3 in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis

• Gia Deyab ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gia Deyab, Ingrid Hokstad, Jon Elling Whist, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Stefan Agewall, Ivana Hollan

  * E-mail: gyyadeyab@gmail.com.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway

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• Ingrid Hokstad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gia Deyab, Ingrid Hokstad, Jon Elling Whist, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Stefan Agewall, Ivana Hollan

  Affiliation Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway

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• Jon Elling Whist ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gia Deyab, Ingrid Hokstad, Jon Elling Whist, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Stefan Agewall, Ivana Hollan

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway, Department of Research, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Brumunddal, Norway

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• Milada Cvancarova Småstuen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gia Deyab, Ingrid Hokstad, Jon Elling Whist, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Stefan Agewall, Ivana Hollan

  Affiliation Institution of health care—Health science PhD programme, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway

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• Stefan Agewall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gia Deyab, Ingrid Hokstad, Jon Elling Whist, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Stefan Agewall, Ivana Hollan

  Affiliations Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Torstein Lyberg ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

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• Barbara Bottazzi ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

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• Pier Luigi Meroni ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, ASST G Pini, Milan, Italy

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• Roberto Leone ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

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• Gunnbjorg Hjeltnes ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway

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• Ivana Hollan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gia Deyab, Ingrid Hokstad, Jon Elling Whist, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Stefan Agewall, Ivana Hollan

  Affiliations Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway, Department of Research, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Brumunddal, Norway, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

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