Occupational trichloroethylene exposure and antinuclear antibodies: a cross-sectional study in China.
Mark P PurdueLuoping ZhangRoel C H VermeulenMartyn T SmithWei HuJongeun RheeCuiju WenYongshun HuangXiaojiang TangSonja I BerndtAshley A Frazer-AbelKevin D DeaneNathaniel RothmanQing LanPublished in: Occupational and environmental medicine (2022)
Our findings, to our knowledge the first direct human evidence of an association between TCE exposure and systemic autoimmunity, provide biologic plausibility to epidemiologic evidence relating TCE and autoimmune disease.