Coffee consumption, rheumatoid factor, and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
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Coffee consumption, rheumatoid factor, and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
BACKGROUND Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid factor (RF) positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Being overweight, high serum cholesterol, and dietary factors have in some studies been found to be associated with the risk of RA. No attention, however, has been paid to coffee consumption as a risk determinant, though it is a shared covariate o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.8.631