Abstracts tagged "SLE and alcohol use"

Abstract Number: 1876 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Influence of Alcohol Consumption on the Risk of SLE Among Women in the Nurses’ Health Studies
Medha Barbhaiya, Bing Lu, Shun-Chiao Chang, Jeffrey A. Sparks, Elizabeth W. Karlson and Karen H. Costenbader, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior case-control studies have reported an inverse association between moderate alcohol consumption and the development of SLE. However, case-control studies may be prone to…