Associations of cigarette smoking with rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

E-ISSN: 1529-0131|62|12|3560-3568

ISSN: 0004-3591

Source: Arthritis & Rheumatism, Vol.62, Iss.12, 2010-12, pp. : 3560-3568

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Abstract

To examine the associations of cigarette smoking with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in African Americans, and to determine whether this association is impacted by the HLA–DRB1 shared epitope (SE).