ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 132 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Pingling Zeng1, Lars Alfredsson2, Lars Klareskog3, Mohammed Mullazehi4, Saedis Saevarsdottir5, Camilla Bengtsson6 and Johan Rönnelid7, 1Institute of Environmental Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, 2The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Dept. of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 4Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology,Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden, 5Karolinska Institute and Karonlinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 6Inst of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 7Department of Immunology Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Background/Purpose: We have previously observed an association between exposure to occupational physical workload (PW) and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA)[1].We posit that PW could…