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Gene Links Smoking, Arthritis and Premature Death

A new study examines smoking, arthritis, heart disease and genes.

2/1/09 Scientists have known for some time that people with rheumatoid arthritis are more likely to die prematurely from heart disease than people without RA. One explanation for the arthritis-heart disease connection is that the same inflammatory process that damages....


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