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- Title
CONJUGAL PREVALENCE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID FACTOR AND OTHER AUTOANTIBODIES IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
- Authors
Dalakos, T. G.; MacSween, R. N. M.; Whaley, K.; Dick, W. C.; Boyle, J. N.; Jasanl, M. K.; Wilson, Maurein L.; Buchanan, W. W.; Goudin, R. B.
- Abstract
The article examines the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid factor, antinuclear autoantibodies, thyroglobulin and thyroid microsomol autoantibodies and gastric parietal cell autoantibodies in 327 husbands and 181 wives. Two husbands and three wives had definite rheumatoid arthritis: This prevalence is no higher than one might expect. A higher prevalence of all five autoantibodies was found in husbands compared with age matched controls. Also, the prevalence of autoantibodies in spouses when compared with that in probands who developed their arthritis before marriage.
- Subjects
RHEUMATOID arthritis; THYROGLOBULIN; AUTOANTIBODIES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; MARRIED people
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 1968, Vol 3, Issue 8, p761
- ISSN
0009-9104
- Publication type
Article