Abstracts tagged "environmental pathogens"

Abstract Number: 914 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Occupational Exposure to Combustion Products and Risk of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis
Anna Ilar¹, Pernilla Wiebert^1,2, Saedis Saevarsdottir³, Johan Askling^4,5, Per Gustavsson^1,2 and Lars Alfredsson^1,2, ¹The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Stockholm County Council, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Rheumatology unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Studies have suggested a potential association between traffic pollutants and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but findings have been inconclusive. We therefore assessed the risk of…
Abstract Number: 2015 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease in Two Canadian Provinces
Sasha Bernatsky¹, Audrey Smargiassi², Cheryl Barnabe³, Lawrence W. Svenson⁴, Allan Brand⁵, Marie Hudson⁶, Steven M. Edworthy⁷, Ann E. Clarke³, Paul R. Fortin⁸, Patrick Belisle⁹ and Lawrence Joseph¹⁰, ¹Divisions of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Département de santé environnementale et santé au travail, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁵Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Rheumatology, Lady David Institute for Medical Research and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁸Rheumatology, Laval University, Division of Rheumatology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec and Department of Medicine, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ⁹Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: To estimate the degree to which fine particulate (PM2.5) air pollution is associated with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). Methods: We used population-based administrative…
Abstract Number: 319 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution
Andrew S. Zeft¹, Sampath Prahalad², Rayfel Schneider³, Alexei Grom⁴, Fatma Dedeoglu⁵, Pamela F. Weiss⁶, Carter Mix⁷ and C. Arden Pope⁸, ¹Pediatrics, Rheumatology, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ³Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵on behalf of CARRAnet Investigators, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Rheumatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, ⁸Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Background/Purpose: Environmental factors are understood to play a pathogenic role in the etiology of Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SJIA). Fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter…

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