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Abdominal obesity, gender and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis – a nested case–control study

BACKGROUND: The risk of development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could be affected by immune activation in obesity. Our objective was to evaluate the association between obesity in general, and abdominal obesity, and the risk for subsequent development of RA. METHODS: In two large population-based,...

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Autores principales: Ljung, Lotta, Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-016-1171-2