EARLY menopause before the age of 45, taking hormone replacement therapy, and having four or more children are among several hormonal and reproductive factors linked to a heightened risk of rheumatoid arthritis in women, according to a large long-term study published in the open access journal RMD Open.
Women are more susceptible to this autoimmune disease than men, showed data used from UK Biobank.
They are four to five times as likely as men to develop rheumatoid arthritis under the age of 50, and twice as likely to do so between the ages of 60 and 70, with a greater physical toll on women than men.
In a bid to discover more about rheumatoid arthritis, the researchers drew on 223,526 UK Biobank participants whose health was tracked for an average of 12 years.
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