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RENACER Study Group (REgistro NAcional CERtolizumab): José Antonio González Ferrández, Carmen Moragues Pastor, Ana Urruticoechea Arana, José Rey Rey, Raúl Veiga Cabello, Ángel Aragón Díez, Noelia Vázquez Fuentes, Anna Martínez Cristóbal, Mª del Pilar Navarro Alonso, Sergi Ordoñez Palau, Alejandro Muñoz Jiménez, José Miguel Ruiz Martín, Asuncion Acosta Pereira, Ángel María García Aparicio, Jesús Carlos Fernández, Mercedes Morcillo, Emilio Giner Serret, Nuria Montala Palau, Carlos Rodríguez Escalera, José Campos Esteban, Juan José de Agustín de Oro, Pedro Giralt Celiméndiz, Desireé Ruiz Vílchez, Silvia Paredes González-Albo, Laura Garrido Courel, Carmen Olga Sánchez González, Maria del Pilar Ahijado Guzmán, Patricia Castro Pérez, Rosa Garcia Portales, Julia Fernández Melón, Gabriel Mercadal Orfila, José Raúl Noguera Pons, Concepción Moll Tuduri, Mª Dolores García Armario, Víctor Eliseo Quevedo Vila, Juan José Lerma Garrido, Antonio Gracia Pérez, Elena Aurrecoechea Aguinaga, Amalia Rueda Cid, Marina Soledad Moreno García, Eduardo Loza Cortina, Delia Taverner Torrent, Rebeca Belmonte Gómez, María Jesús Martínez Blasco, Raúl Moreno Domínguez, Jenaro Graña Gil, Raúl Cortés Verdú, Mª Teresa Ruiz Jimeno, Cristina Mata Arnaiz, Georgina Salvador Alarcón, Ana María Fernández Ortiz, Marco Moreno Zazo, Susana Barona Trapote, Manuel Utrilla Utrilla, Jaime Calvo Alén, César Antonio Egües Dubuc, Azucena Hernández Sanz, Mar López-Sidro Ibáñez, César Díaz Torne, Vicente Aldasoro Cáceres, Vera Ortiz Santamaría, Mª Ángeles Hernández del Río, Leticia del Olmo Pérez, Jesús Quijada Carrera, Claudia Stoye, Mª de los Ángeles Belmonte, Mª Ángeles Acosta Mérida, Carlos Tomás Roura, Arantxa Conesa Mateos, Joan Dalmau Carolà and José María Salazar Vallinas.
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Torrente-Segarra, V., Fernandez Prada, M., Expósito Moliner, R. et al. How elderly rheumatoid arthritis patients respond at one year of treatment with certolizumab pegol. Rheumatol Int 39, 395–398 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-018-4205-z
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