Association of Combined Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants, Genetic Risk, and Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Prospective Cohort Study in the UK Biobank.

Jie ZhangXin-Yu FangJun WuYin-Guang FanRui-Xue LengBo LiuXiao-Jie LvYu-Lu YanChen MaoDong-Qing Ye

Published in: Environmental health perspectives (2023)

The results revealed that long-term combined exposure to ambient air pollutants might increase the risk of RA, particularly in those with high genetic risk. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10710.

Keyphrases

rheumatoid arthritis
air pollution
particulate matter
genome wide
disease activity
heavy metals
copy number
ankylosing spondylitis
type diabetes
cross sectional