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Joint Bone Spine

Volume 86, Issue 6, November 2019, Pages 800-802
Joint Bone Spine

Letter to the Editor
Uptrend in mortality from systemic connective tissue diseases: A joinpoint regression analysis among the general population of Brazil, 1996–2016

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Authors’ contributions

RR conceived and designed the study. All authors analysed the data, wrote the manuscript and approved the final version.

Funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sector.

Patient consent for publication

Not applicable.

Ethics approval

Not required.

Data sharing statement

No additional data available.

Disclosure of interest

The authors declare that they have no competing interest.

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