Association between residences in U.S. northern latitudes and rheumatoid arthritis: A spatial analysis of the nurses' health study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 957-961

  Vieira, Verónica M ^a   Hart, Jaime E ^b,c   Webster, Thomas F ^a   Weinberg, Janice ^a   Puett, Robin ^d   Laden, Francine ^b,c   Costenbader, Karen H ^b   Karlson, Elizabeth W ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease mapping; Generalized additive models; Geographic information systems (GIS); Prospective cohort study; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LATITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; NURSE; PARITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ENGLAND; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954841018     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901861     Document Type: Article

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