Posted on 05/10/2023 10:12:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
The amount of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH for short, is strongly linked to a person's risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, suggests research.
These chemicals, formed from the burning of coal, oil, gas, wood, or tobacco as well as the flame grilling of meat and other foods, also seem to account for most of smoking's impact on risk of the disease, the findings indicate.
The researchers drew on the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 2007 and 2016.
NHANES evaluates a wide variety of toxicants, along with data related to health, nutrition, behaviors and the environment.
The study included 21,987 adults, 1,418 of whom had rheumatoid arthritis and 20,569 of whom didn't. Blood and urine samples were taken to measure the total amount of PAH (7,090 participants), PHTHTEs (7,024), and VOCs (7,129) in the body.
The odds of rheumatoid arthritis were highest among those in the top 25% of bodily PAH levels, irrespective of whether or not they were former or current smokers.
After accounting for potentially influential factors, including dietary fiber intake, physical activity, smoking, household income, educational attainment, age, sex, and weight (BMI), only one PAH—1-hydroxynaphthalene—was strongly associated with higher odds (80%) of the disease.
PHTHTE and VOC metabolites weren't associated with heightened risk after accounting for potentially influential factors.
Somewhat surprisingly, however, smoking wasn't associated with heightened rheumatoid arthritis risk either, after accounting for PAH levels in the body.
And further analysis to separate out the influences of PAH and smoking showed that bodily PAH level accounted for 90% of the total effect of smoking on rheumatoid arthritis risk.
This is an observational study, and as such, can't determine cause. And the researchers acknowledge various limitations to their findings, including that measurements of environmental toxicants in fat (adipose) tissue weren't available.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Does that mean no more roscato wine for me?
Bacon cooked on gas stoves!!
Ban bacon. Ban gas stoves. Ban cooking. Ban meat. Then all will be well.
Bye to all the grifters polyesters then. Vests at
chain stores.
My doctor told me and I tend to agree, that 95% of your health is related to your genes.
You can huff, you can puff, you can dance, you can prance... You can do anything you want to avoid the inevitable But it’s going to get you in the end.
Death! It happens not only to the best of us, but to all of us.
The best advice in the world... Look both ways before you cross the street. That has literally saved hundreds of millions of lives.
My wife has RA. That’s why she sends ME outside to grill the steaks.
She’s always said “You can have my grilled steak when you pry it from my cold, dead arthritic hands.”. I love that woman.
1-hydroxynaphthalene (aka 1-Naphthol) is a biological metabolite of naphthalene-based moth balls when said moth ball fumes are absorbed by the human body ... it might therefore be expected that excessive exposure to moth balls could be an inducer of rheumatoid arthritis ...
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Poor moths :-) My grandparents used mothballs in their clothing closet in Norfolk. I haven't been exposed to any more since Fall of 1963. I did a blood test in grad school that consisted of adding a reagent of fine teflon balls to a drop of blood on the test slide. The test works by teflon balls becoming coated with antigens and antibodies from the blood. If you have both, the teflon balls coagulate on the test slide. My fellow students were about 10 minutes ahead of me and nobody was getting any coagulation results. I did my own blood same. Rocked the slide 3 times to mix the blood/reagent. It hardened into a mass on the slide. That was at age 20 in grad school. It was clear that RA was already underway. 800 mg of ibuprofen daily has slowed the damage to my joints and tendons. At nearly 67, the ibuprofen is becoming less able to keep the inflammation under control.
Bullshit. My smoker crapped out before the virus and I had no issues.
Enter the virus, and I’m struggling with RA.
Serious grain of salt on a singular cause of RA - particularly as outlined in the paper - not under an umbrella of inflammation.
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Nothing on Marijuana smoke?
Chris Plante says DC evening air is saturated with it.
I think a lot more studies need to be done before I toss the patio grill out. Not gone happen.
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