Cigarette smoking, disease severity, and autoantibody expression in African Americans with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of smoking with clinical and serologic features in African Americans with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to explore whether this association is dependent on the presence of the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (SE). METHODS: In African Americans with recent-o...

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Main Authors: Mikuls, Ted R., Hughes, Laura B., Westfall, Andrew O., Holers, V. Michael, Parrish, Lezlie, van der Heijde, Desiree, van Everdingen, Maaltje, Alarcón, Graciela S., Conn, Doyt L., Jonas, Beth, Callahan, Leigh F., Smith, Edwin A., Gilkeson, Gary, Howard, George, Moreland, Larry W., Bridges, S. Louis
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731992/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18198196
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.2007.082669
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