Tocilizumab potentially prevents bone loss in patients with anticitrullinated protein antibody-positive rheumatoid arthritis

• Yi-Ming Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Hua Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Wen-Nan Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tsai-Ling Liao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Jun-Peng Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics Task Force of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Wen-Cheng Chao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Chest Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ching-Tsai Lin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Wei-Ting Hung,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chia-Wei Hsieh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Tsu-Yi Hsieh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program of Business, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yi-Hsing Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Der-Yuan Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dychen@vghtc.gov.tw

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7736-2235

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