Serum calcification propensity is independently associated with disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus

• Suzan Dahdal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suzan Dahdal, Vasilios Devetzis

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension lnselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5533-2326

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• Vasilios Devetzis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suzan Dahdal, Vasilios Devetzis

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension lnselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• George Chalikias,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

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• Dimitrios Tziakas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

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• Carlo Chizzolini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospital and School of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Camillo Ribi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Marten Trendelenburg,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Ute Eisenberger,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

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• Thomas Hauser,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Immunologie-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Andreas Pasch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Calciscon AG, Nidau, Switzerland

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• Uyen Huynh-Do ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension lnselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Spyridon Arampatzis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Spyridon.arampatzis@insel.ch

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension lnselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• on behalf of the Swiss Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort Study Group

  ¶Membership and chair of the Swiss Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort Study Group is provided in the acknowledgments.

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