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In recent years, research in the field of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has focused on the earliest stages of disease. Different terminologies for preclinical and very early clinical disease stages are used; ‘pre-RA’ is one of these terms. In order to facilitate communication, a European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) task force has derived recommendations for terminology to be used during the preclinical and earliest clinically apparent phases of RA.

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    Annette HM van der Helmvan Mil, Wouter Stomp, Monique Reijnierse & Tom WJ Huizinga

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van der Helmvan Mil, A.H., Stomp, W., Reijnierse, M., Huizinga, T.W. (2015). Pre-rheumatoid arthritis. In: Emery, P. (eds) Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Springer Healthcare, Tarporley. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-907673-91-7_2

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