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Environmental exposures and rheumatoid arthritis risk.
Current rheumatology reports - 1 Oct 2011
Hoovestol Ryan A, Mikuls Ted R
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In addition to rapidly burgeoning data regarding novel genetic risk factors, a growing list of environmental exposures have been implicated in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility. Cigarette smoking is chief among the many environmental exposures implicated in disease risk, accounting for approximately one in six new cases of RA, with recent results underscoring the central importance of select gene-smoking...
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