Does pregnancy provide vaccine-like protection against rheumatoid arthritis?

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1842-1848

  Guthrie, Katherine A ^a   Dugowson, Carin E ^b   Voigt, Lynda F ^a,b   Koepsell, Thomas D ^b   Nelson, J Lee ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS CELL; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MICROCHIMERISM; MODULATION; NULLIPARA; PARITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHIMERISM; FEMALE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954229802     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.27459     Document Type: Article

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