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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: M. Khurram Afzal, MD [2]

Overview

There are no established risk factors for [disease name].

OR

The most potent risk factor in the development of [disease name] is [risk factor 1]. Other risk factors include [risk factor 2], [risk factor 3], and [risk factor 4].

OR

Common risk factors in the development of [disease name] include [risk factor 1], [risk factor 2], [risk factor 3], and [risk factor 4].

OR

Common risk factors in the development of [disease name] may be occupational, environmental, genetic, and viral.

Risk Factors

  • There are no established risk factors for [disease name].

OR

  • The most potent risk factor in the development of [disease name] is [risk factor 1]. Other risk factors include [risk factor 2], [risk factor 3], and [risk factor 4].
  • Common risk factors in the development of [disease name] include [risk factor 1], [risk factor 2], [risk factor 3], and [risk factor 4].

Common Risk Factors

  • Common risk factors in the development of scleroderma may be occupational, environmental, genetic, and infectious:
    • Occupational:[1]
      • Crystaline silica
      • Trichlorethylene
      • Chlorinated solvents
      • Toluene
      • Aromatic solvents
      • Ketones
      • White spirit
      • Epoxy resins
      • Welding fumes
    • Infectious:[2][3]
      • Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
      • Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
      • Toxoplasma gondii infection (toxoplasmosis)

Less Common Risk Factors

  • Less common risk factors in the development of [disease name] include:
    • [Risk factor 1]
    • [Risk factor 2]
    • [Risk factor 3]

References

  1. Diot E, Lesire V, Guilmot JL, Metzger MD, Pilore R, Rogier S, Stadler M, Diot P, Lemarie E, Lasfargues G (August 2002). "Systemic sclerosis and occupational risk factors: a case-control study". Occup Environ Med. 59 (8): 545–9. PMC 1740346. PMID 12151611.
  2. Radić M, Martinović Kaliterna D, Radić J (November 2010). "Infectious disease as aetiological factor in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis". Neth J Med. 68 (11): 348–53. PMID 21158008.
  3. Arnson Y, Amital H, Guiducci S, Matucci-Cerinic M, Valentini G, Barzilai O, Maya R, Shoenfeld Y (September 2009). "The role of infections in the immunopathogensis of systemic sclerosis--evidence from serological studies". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1173: 627–32. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04808.x. PMID 19758208.

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