Heavy birthweight babies twice as likely to develop rheumatoid a...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 06/28/2008 - 23:00

(BMJ-British Medical Journal) Heavy birthweight female babies are twice as likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis in adulthood as their average birthweight peers, suggests research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

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