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01-07-2012 | Poster presentation
Dietary intake of vitamin D during adolescence and risk of adult onset systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis
Authors:
Linda T Hiraki, Karen H Costenbader, Kassandra L Munger, Elizabeth W Karlson
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Early life exposures have been implicated in the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Vitamin D has immunomodulatory effects with implications as an etiologic and therapeutic factor in several autoimmune diseases including SLE and RA. There are no studies on vitamin D intake during adolescence and the risk of adult onset SLE and RA. …