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Awareness and screening attitudes of Portuguese dermatologists on cardiovascular risk factors in psoriatic patients

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Inês Raposo, Manuela Selores & Tiago Torres

  2. Immunogenetics laboratory, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Andreia Bettencourt

  3. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Manuela Selores & Tiago Torres

  4. Dermatology Research Unit, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Manuela Selores & Tiago Torres

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Raposo, I., Bettencourt, A., Selores, M. et al. Awareness and screening attitudes of Portuguese dermatologists on cardiovascular risk factors in psoriatic patients. Eur J Dermatol 27, 443–445 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2017.3053

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