Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pathogenesis"

Abstract Number: 1994 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Helicobacter Pylori Infection Among Korean Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Its Interaction with Shared Epitope
Eun Ha Kang¹, So-Young Bang ², Ye Ji Lee ³, You-Jung Ha ¹, Yun Jong Lee ⁴, Yeong-Wook Song ³, Sang-Cheol Bae ² and Eun Bong Lee ⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, ²Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, seoul
Background/Purpose: While smoking is an important environmental risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) development, only a small proportion of Korean patients with RA were found…