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G Gacar

Importance of Smoking in Pulmonary Involvement of Rheumatoid Arthritis

DOI: 
10.7727/wimj.2015.568
Synopsis: 
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), is a multi-systemic disease of unknown origin. The reason for the prominence of lungs involvement in some patients with the disease is not clearly defined. Since it was believed that smoking plays an important role in both etiology and progression of the disease, we evaluated the effects of smoking on disease activity, pulmonary functions and alveolar inflammation parameters in patients with RA.

ABSTRACT

Objectives:  The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of smoking on disease activity and pulmonary involvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).  

Accepted: 
08 Feb, 2016
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e-Published: 31 Mar, 2016

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