Abstracts tagged "environmental pathogens and epidemiologic methods"

Abstract Number: 988 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association of Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Risk of SLE Among Women in the Nurses’ Health Studies
Medha Barbhaiya¹, Jaime Hart^2,3, Susan Malspeis⁴, Sara K. Tedeschi⁵, David J. Kreps⁵, Trang VoPham⁶, Jeffrey A. Sparks⁷, Elizabeth Karlson⁵, Francine Laden^2,3,8 and Karen H. Costenbader⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ³Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁷Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁸Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) exposure may lead to worsened photosensitivity, rashes, and systemic flares among SLE patients. Although UV-B radiation damages keratinocytes and may result…