Fibromyalgia is a disorder of unknown etiology characterized by chronic, widespread
musculoskeletal pain and symptoms such as fatigue, poor sleep, gastrointestinal complaints, and …

Objective. To study the effect of tobacco smoking and rheumatoid factor (RF) isotypes on
disease activity and joint damage in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. One hundred …

Objectives. Smokers have an increased incidence of rheumatoid factor (RF) and rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) and one report has also indicated that smoking may also adversely influence …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether low mannose binding lectin (MBL) is associated with
poor prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and whether patients with RA have increased …

Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or fibromyalgia, two prevalent and poorly
understood disorders, experience symptoms of fatigue and myalgias that are reminiscent of those …

Results Over 90% of women born after 1944 had used oral contraceptives. However, 20%
had stopped after a year or less. One third had used the pill for more than four years. The age …

… activity in different smoking groups (Ruiz-Esquide et al., 2011; Soderlin et al., 2011;
Westhoff et al., 2008), even if other describe that smokers had higher disease activity (Manfredsdottir …

… It can be arguedthat, as less than 10% of Icelandic women over 39 years of age use oral
contraceptives (Manfredsdottir et al, 1996), the women who belonged to the younger birth …

Recently, we showed that variant mannose-binding lectin (MBL) genotypes were associated
with radiographic outcome in Danish patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)(1). Therefore, it …