Increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis among patients with Mycoplasma pneumonia: A nationwide population-based cohort study in Taiwan

• Kuo-An Chu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Chest Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Shu-Zen Junior College of Medicine and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Weishan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chung Y. Hsu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yao-Min Hung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Min Hung, James Cheng-Chung Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ymhung1@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Yuhing Junior College of Health Care and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• James Cheng-Chung Wei

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yao-Min Hung, James Cheng-Chung Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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