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Smoking habits were compared in 211 patients with rheumatoid arthritis without vasculitis and 45 patients with rheumatoid vasculitis. Smoking was more common in patients with vasculitis (P<0.02) and there was a significant association between smoking and the occurrence of nailfold lesions in males with vasculitis.
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Struthers, G.R., Scott, D.L., Delamere, J.P. et al. Smoking and rheumatoid vasculitis. Rheumatol Int 1, 145–146 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00541260
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