Abstracts tagged "Environmental factors"

Abstract Number: 2692 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diet and Other Lifestyle Related Factors and the Risk of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis
Björn Sundström¹, Ingegerd Johansson² and Solbritt Rantapää Dahlqvist³, ¹Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ²Department of Odontology, Cariology, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden, ³Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
Background/Purpose: There is a growing interest in the role of lifestyle in developing chronic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Our aim was to investigate…