Respiratory viral infections and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to investigate the effects of ambient respiratory viral infections in the general population on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) development.

Methods

Data of weekly incident RA (2012-2013) were obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance claims database, and those of weekly observations on eight respiratory viral infections were obtained from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention database. We estimated the percentage change in incident RA associated with ambient mean respiratory viral infections using a generalized linear model, after adjusting for time trend, air pollution, and meteorological data.

Results

A total of 24,117 cases of incident RA (mean age 54.7 years, 18,688 [77.5%] women) were analyzed. Ambient respiratory viral infe

SUBMITTER: Joo YB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716891 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature