In autoimmune rheumatic diseases, oestrogens can stimulate certain immune responses
(including effects on B cells and innate immunity), but can also have dose-related anti …

RA is the most common chronic systemic autoimmune disease, with a higher prevalence in
women, suggesting female hormonal factors play a role in the development of the disease …

Multiple environmental factors including hormones, dietary factors, infections, and exposure
to tobacco smoke, as well as gene-environment interactions, have been associated with …

The current review uses rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as a prominent example for how studies
on the interplay between environmental and genetic factors in defined subsets of a disease …

Objective. To perform a meta-synthesis of the evidence for modifiable lifestyle risk factors for
inflammatory polyarthritis (IP) and RA. Methods. We performed a MEDLINE literature search …

Background As rheumatoid arthritis (RA) occurs more often in women than in men, it has
been suggested that reproductive hormones may play an important role in the pathogenesis …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disease and has a
female predominance of around 3: 1. The relationship between sex hormones and RA has …

The etiopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is partially understood. Genetic,
environmental, and hormonal factors and their interactions are considered to play an …

Objectives To study whether oral contraceptive (OC) use or breastfeeding (BF) influence the
risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stratifying the cases by presence/absence of anticitrullinated …

Objective. Previous studies have examined the association between breastfeeding and
rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but their results were inconsistent. The aim of this study was to …