Epidemiology of adult rheumatoid arthritis

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 130-136

  Alamanos, Yannis ^a   Drosos, Alexandros A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Incidence; Prevalence; Rheumatoid arthritis; Shared epitope

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DIET; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PARVOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA VIRUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

EID: 16844385090     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2004.09.002     Document Type: Review

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