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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Costenbader KH, Chang SC, Laden F et al.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

 Arch Intern Med 2008;168:1664–70.

Editor’s note: As knowledge about thegenetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) advances at a pace, there is a pressing need for further studies to identify environmental triggers for RA. A number of risk factors are already known, such as cigarette smoking, obesity, and lack of exposure to the oral contraceptive pill.

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