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- Title
Towards prevention of autoantibody-positive rheumatoid arthritis: from lifestyle modification to preventive treatment.
- Authors
Gerlag, Danielle M.; Norris, Jill M.; Tak, Paul P.
- Abstract
Recent advances in research into the earliest phases of RA have provided additional insights into the processes leading from the healthy to the diseased state. These insights have opened the way for the development of preventive strategies for RA, which represents a significant paradigm shift from treatment to prevention and will have major implications for patients as well as society. It would be a huge step forward if clinical signs and symptoms, disability, impaired quality of life and the need for chronic im-munosuppressive treatment could be prevented. RA can be seen as a prototypic autoimmune disease, and discoveries about the preclinical diseased state for RA could potentially facilitate research into prevention of other immune-mediated inflammatory diseases such as type 1 diabetes, SLE and multiple sclerosis. This review focuses on the current knowledge of factors contributing to the development of RA and discusses the opportunities for intervention.
- Subjects
RHEUMATOID arthritis risk factors; RITUXIMAB; OBESITY complications; AUTOANTIBODIES; DIET; GENETICS; PERIODONTITIS; RHEUMATOID arthritis; SMOKING; SYNOVIAL membranes; TOBACCO; LIFESTYLES; PREVENTION
- Publication
Rheumatology, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 4, p607
- ISSN
1462-0324
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rheumatology/kev347