Inverse association between air pressure and rheumatoid arthritis synovitis.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a bone destructive autoimmune disease. Many patients with RA recognize fluctuations of their joint synovitis according to changes of air pressure, but the correlations between them have never been addressed in large-scale association studies. To address this point we rec...

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Main Authors: Chikashi Terao, Motomu Hashimoto, Moritoshi Furu, Shuichiro Nakabo, Koichiro Ohmura, Ran Nakashima, Yoshitaka Imura, Naoichiro Yukawa, Hajime Yoshifuji, Fumihiko Matsuda, Hiromu Ito, Takao Fujii, Tsuneyo Mimori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3893195?pdf=render