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| February 15, 2001 | Kubetin, Sally Koch | COPYRIGHT 2001 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Cigarette smoking appears to boost a woman's risk of elderly onset rheumatoid arthritis, Dr. Kenneth G. Saag said at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology.

Dr. Saag of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and his associates used data collected in the Iowa Women's Health Study, which enrolled more than 41,000 women in 1986. They did a case-control analysis based on 158 women with confirmed ...

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