Long term alcohol intake and risk of rheumatoid arthritis in women: a population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse the association between alcohol intake and incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in women.

Design

Prospective cohort study with repeated measurements.

Setting

The Swedish Mammography Cohort, a population based cohort from central Sweden.

Participants

34,141 women born between 1914 and 1948, followed up from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2009.

Main outcome measures

Newly diagnosed cases of rheumatoid arthritis identified by linkage with two Swedish national registers. Data on alcohol consumption were collected in 1987 and 1997.

Results

During the follow-up period (226,032 person years), 197 incident cases of rheumatoid arthritis were identified. There was a statistically significant 37% decrease in risk of rheumatoid arthritis amon

SUBMITTER: Di Giuseppe D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3393782 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature