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Rheumatology 2008 47(Supplement 3):iii1; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken171
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Introduction: new trends in pregnancy and rheumatic diseases

M. Cutolo1, M. Matucci-Cerinic2, M. Lockshin3 and M. Østensen4

1Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, 2Department of Biomedicine, Division of Rheumatology AOUC, Denothe Centre, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 3Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease Joan and Sanford Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University, New York, USA and 4Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Correspondence to: M. Cutolo, Research Laboratory and Academic Clinical, Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Viale Benedetto XV, 6, 16132 Genova, Italy. E-mail: mcutolo@unige.it

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Immunological and epidemiological evidence suggests that female sex hormones play an important role in the aetiology and pathophysiology of chronic inflammatory diseases; however, whether (or when) estrogens are friends or foes in inflammatory/immune-mediated rheumatic diseases is still a matter of debate [1].

Several significant factors generate . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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