ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR A PREVENTIVE EFFECT

The Lancet

Volumn 320, Issue 8303, 1982, Pages 839-842

  Vandenbroucke, J P ^a,b   Boersma, J W ^a,b   Festen, J J M ^a,b   Valkenburg, H A ^a,b   Cats, A ^a,b   Huber Bruning, O ^a,b   Rasker, J J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; JOINT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREVENTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGY; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS--SIDE EFFECTS; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; ESTROGENS; FAMILY PLANNING; HEMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HEMIC SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES--SIDE EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0019985009     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(82)90809-1     Document Type: Article

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