Abstract Number: 435 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Smoking Functions As a Negative Regulator of IGF-1 Levels and Adipokine Network in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose Smoking is an important player in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) being tightly connected to the genetic (carriage of HLA-DRB1 shared epitope) and…