Association between tonsillitis and newly diagnosed ankylosing spondylitis: A nationwide, population-based, case-control study

• Wen-Cheng Chao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, College of Medicine & Nursing, Hung Kuang University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-8934

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• Ching-Heng Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Healthcare Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Yi-Ming Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

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

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• Rong-San Jiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Hua Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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