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| Beverley J HarrisonSummaryAffiliation: Christie Hospital Country: UK Publications
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Influence of cigarette smoking on disease outcome in rheumatoid arthritisBeverley J Harrison
Department of Rheumatology, North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
Curr Opin Rheumatol 14:93-7. 2002..Smoking has also been shown to affect disease outcome in other inflammatory diseases. The major focus of this review is to explore the relationship between smoking and severity of rheumatoid arthritis in detail...
Assessing periarticular bone mineral density in patients with early psoriatic arthritis or rheumatoid arthritisB J Harrison
Department of Rheumatology, North Manchester General Hospital and ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, UK
Ann Rheum Dis 61:1007-11. 2002..Bone mineral density (BMD) can now be measured accurately using dual energy x ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Recently, DEXA has been used to measure periarticular BMD at predefined regions of interest (ROIs) around the joints...
Cigarette smoking as a significant risk factor for digital vascular disease in patients with systemic sclerosisBeverley J Harrison
North Manchester General Hospital and ARC Epidemiology Unit, Manchester, UK
Arthritis Rheum 46:3312-6. 2002..Cigarette smoking is an important risk factor for vascular disease in the general population. We investigated the influence of cigarette smoking on digital ischemia in patients with SSc...
