Smoking cessation is associated with lower disease activity and predicts cardiovascular risk reduction in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

1 ), a greater proportion of current smokers had moderate or high disease activity (70.6%) compared with former and never smokers (62.5% and 60.4%, respectively), which remained highly significant after adjustment for age, sex and disease duration ( P < 0.001 for both).

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