Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Association between occupational exposure to mineral oil and rheumatoid arthritis: results from the Swedish EIRA case–control study. | Available online http content 7 6 R1296 Research article Association between occupational exposure to mineral oil and rheumatoid arthritis results from the Swedish EIRA case-control study Berit Sverdrup1 2 Henrik Kallberg3 Camilla Bengtsson3 Ingvar Lundberg4 Leonid Padyukov1 Lars Alfredsson3 5 Lars Klareskog1 and the Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis study group Rheumatology Unit Department of Medicine Karolinska Institutet Karolinska Hospital Stockholm Sweden 2Rheumatology Unit Eskilstuna Hospital Eskilstuna Sweden 3Institute of Environmental Medicine Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden 4Department of Occupational Medicine National Institute for Working Life Stockholm Sweden 5Stockholm Center for Public Health Stockholm County Council Stockholm Sweden Corresponding author Lars Klareskog Received 28 Jun 2005 Revisions requested 29 Jul 2005 Revisions received 18 Aug 2005 Accepted 24 Aug 2005 Published 23 Sep 2005 Arthritis Research Therapy 2005 7 R1296-R1303 DOI ar1824 This article is online at http content 7 6 R1 296 2005 Sverdrup et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between exposure to mineral oil and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis RA and in addition to perform a separate analysis on the major subphenotypes for the disease namely rheumatoid factor RF -positive RA RF-negative RA anticitrulline-positive RA and anticitrulline-negative RA respectively. A population-based case-control study of incident cases of RA was performed among the population aged 18-70 years in a defined area of Sweden during May .
