Abstracts tagged "risk and tobacco use"

Abstract Number: 124 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Smoking and Rheumatoid Arthritis Susceptibility; Quantification of the Impact of Cumulative Dose, Frequency and Duration of Smoking, and Smoking Cessation
Lars Alfredsson¹, Anna Karin Hedström², Camilla Bengtsson³ and Lars Klareskog⁴, ¹The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Inst of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Dept. of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Smoking is one of the most established risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to estimate how age at…
Abstract Number: 125 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Exposure to Passive Smoking and RA Risk; Results from a Swedish Case-Control Study
Lars Alfredsson¹, Anna Karin Hedström² and Lars Klareskog³, ¹The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Dept. of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Smoking has consistently been associated with increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated the influence of passive smoking on the risk of…
Abstract Number: 2298 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Incident Risk of Acute Gout Among Active Smokers: Data from Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Dilli Poudel¹, Paras Karmacharya¹ and Anthony Donato², ¹Internal Medicine, Reading Health System, WEST READING, PA, ²Internal medicine, Reading Health System, WEST READING, PA
Background/Purpose: Smoking has been found to be negatively correlated with serum uric acid levels by virtue of reduced production and increased consumption of endogenous anti-oxidant…