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Exposure to ultraviolet-B and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis among women in the Nurses’ Health Study
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  • Elizabeth V Arkema Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USADivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jaime E Hart Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kimberly A Bertrand Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USAChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francine Laden Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USAChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Francine Grodstein Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USAChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bernard A Rosner Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Elizabeth W Karlson Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karen H Costenbader Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth V Arkema, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA;earkema{at}post.harvard.edu
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Arkema EV, Hart JE, Bertrand KA, et al
Exposure to ultraviolet-B and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis among women in the Nurses’ Health Study
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2013;72:506-511.

Publication history

  • Received July 4, 2012
  • Revised January 3, 2013
  • Accepted January 4, 2013
  • First published February 4, 2013.
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February 25, 2013

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