Figure 1:
Association of smoking cessation and risk of anti-double stranded DNA positive (dsDNA+) SLE among participants in Nurses’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study II. p for heterogeneity between the cohorts >0.05 for all analyses. *Adjusted for age, race, questionnaire cycle, cohort, alcohol intake, body mass index, median family income from US census, oral contraceptive use and menopausal status/postmenopausal hormone use. CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; MV, multivariable; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus. From Barbhaiya M, Tedeschi SK, Lu B, et al., Cigarette smoking and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus, overall and by anti-double stranded DNA antibody subtype, in the Nurses’ Health Study cohorts. Ann Rheum Dis, 2018. 77(2): p. 196–202; with permission.