ArticleBMC public health2022
Pregnancy loss and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in Chinese women: findings from the China Kadoorie biobank.
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- Pregnancy complications and autoimmune diseases in women: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Biorepositories For Global Rare Disease Research: A Narrative Review.Current rheumatology reports · 2025Review
- Diabetes Mellitus and Gynecological and Inflammation Disorders Increased the Risk of Pregnancy Loss in a Population Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Reproductive Effect by Rheumatoid Arthritis and Related Autoantibodies.Rheumatology and therapy · 2024Review
- Determination of the Predictive Roles and Potentially Pathogenic Antigen Epitopes of α-Enolase Related to the Development of Miscarriage in Females with Autoimmune Thyroiditis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Considering the female preponderance of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and disease onset typically after the reproductive years, pregnancy and childbirth may play a role in the aetiology of the disease. Adverse outcomes of pregnancy have been found to precede the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases, including RA, but the evidence is scant and inconsistent. Therefore, we investigate whether pregnancy loss is associated with the risk of RA in Chinese women. Data from the China Kadoorie Biobank, conducted by the University of Oxford and the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, of 299,629 Chinese women who had been pregnant were used. Multivariable logistic regression and stratified analyses were employed to analyse the association between types of pregnancy loss with the risk of RA. Pregnancy loss was significantly associated with increased risk of RA (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.06-1.18), specifically, spontaneous (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.03-1.20) and induced abortions (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.06-1.17). There was no significant association between stillbirth and the risk of RA (OR 1.07, 95% CI 0.97-1.18). The risk of developing RA increases with the number of pregnancy losses: one loss confers an OR of 1.09 (95% CI 1.03-1.16), two an OR of 1.13 (95% CI 1.05-1.20), three or more an OR of 1.19 (95% CI 1.10-1.28) and OR of 1.06 (95% CI 1.03-1.08) for each additional. Spontaneous and induced abortions are associated with an increased risk of RA in Chinese women.
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