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- Published online March 13, 2009.
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- Mathilde Benhamou,
- Nathalie Rincheval,
- Carine Roy,
- Violaine Foltz,
- Sylvie Rozenberg,
- Jean Sibilia,
- Thierry Schaeverbeke,
- Pierre Bourgeois,
- Philippe Ravaud and
- Bruno Fautrel
- From the Department of Rheumatology, University of Paris VI, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, Paris; Coordination Center, Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier; Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of Paris VII, Bichat Hospital, Paris; Department of Rheumatology, EA 3432 Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg; and Department of Rheumatology, Pellegrin Hospital, Bordeaux, France. An unrestricted grant from Merck Sharp and Dohme was allocated for the first 5 years of the ESPOIR cohort. Two additional grants from INSERM were obtained to support part of the biological database. The French Society of Rheumatology, Abbott, Amgen, and Wyeth also supported the ESPOIR cohort study.
M. Benhamou, MD, Department of Rheumatology, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital; N. Rincheval, PhD, Coordination Center, Lapeyronie Hospital; C. Roy, MSc, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Bichat Hospital; V. Foltz, MD; S. Rozenberg, MD, Department of Rheumatology, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital; J. Sibilia, MD, Department of Rheumatology, EA 3432 Louis Pasteur University; T. Schaeverbeke, MD, PhD, Department of Rheumatology, Pellegrin Hospital; P. Bourgeois, MD, Department of Rheumatology, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital; P. Ravaud, MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Bichat Hospital; B. Fautrel, MD, PhD, Department of Rheumatology, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital.
Address reprint requests to Dr. B. Fautrel, University Pierre et Marie Curie–Paris VI, Department of Rheumatology, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, 83 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France. E-mail: bruno.fautrel@psl.aphp.fr
Accepted for publication November 27, 2008.