Smoking and systemic sclerosis: influence on microangiopathy and expression of anti-topoisomerase I antibodies in a monocentric cohort.

CONCLUSIONS: We observed a significant association between smoking history and positivity of ATA and we outlined the idea of a different effect of smoking on autoantibody expression between men and women. PMID: 32242801 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research