Do Vaccinations Increase the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis?

July 10th, 2010

One of the theories that had linked to rheumatoid arthritis development was vaccination. According to a research published online July 5 in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, There does not association between adult vaccinations and an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.

Camilla Bengtsson, of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and teams analyzed data on 1,998 patients with rheumatoid arthritis within age 18 to 70 and 2,252 healthy as controls. They compared those who had received routine vaccinations, such as for tetanus and flu, within five years of disease onset with those who had not been vaccinated.

vaccination_and_rheumatoid_arthritis_riskBengtsson and the teams concluded that adult vaccinations not impact to the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, and no association between antibodies and vaccination to citrullinated peptide (ACPA)-positive or ACPA-negative disease, both major subgroups of rheumatoid arthritis.

There was also no association between vaccination and risk for rheumatoid arthritis in two groups with established rheumatoid arthritis risk factors: smokers and carriers of the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles.

These findings should be applied among public health care providers in order to encourage vaccinations according to recommended national vaccination schedules,” Brington said.


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