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Article: Breast feeding protects against development of RA.(rheumatoid arthritis)
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- Health & Medicine Week
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- November 25, 2002
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2002 NOV 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer - Researchers have discovered that breast feeding protects women against developing rheumatoid arthritis with a duration effect - the longer a woman breast feeds the longer the protection remains in force
Elizabeth W. Karlson, MD, RBB Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Research Center, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, presented the study in a session entitled, "Epidemiology: RA and Connective Tissue Diseases" at the American College of Rheumatology 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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