Arthritis link to birthweight - The Guardian 30th June 2008

Women are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis later in life if they were heavy at birth, according to a major study of the debilitating joint condition, which affects 400,000 people in Britain. The findings, based on patient records of more than 87,000 women aged between 30 and 55 when the US Nurses' Health Study began in 1976.

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