Drs. Deane and Demoruelle reply.

Drs. Deane and Demoruelle reply. J Rheumatol. 2019 Dec 01;: Authors: Deane KD, Demoruelle MK Abstract In the letter by Alpizar-Rodriguez and Finckh1, they describe their prior work in which they found, similar to our current report, an association between older age and anticitrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) positivity in first-degree relatives (FDR) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)2,3 In contrast to our findings, their data suggest that the strongest association between ACPA positivity and age is in women aged 45-55 years, and they did not find an association between ACPA positivity and age in men. PMID: 31787609 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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