Child-to-adult body size trajectories and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: the mediating role of metabolic unhealthiness, low-grade inflammation, and the modifying effect of genetic susceptibility.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between body size changes from childhood to adulthood and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), considering the roles of metabolic unhealthiness, low-grade inflammation, and genetic susceptibility. METHODS Data from the UK Biobank on 482,264 RA-free participants were divided into nine ca...