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Children are extremely vulnerable. And this sets them up for trauma that can harm them for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\nChildren are extremely vulnerable. And this sets them up for trauma that can harm them for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n
A study has just appeared in the journal Rheumatology<\/em> that reveals that if you suffer from arthritis, it\u2019s very likely caused being exposed in a specifically harmful situation as a child.<\/p>\n In fact, this trauma increases your risk of arthritis by up to 67%.<\/p>\n This study started out innocently enough. <\/p>\n A team of French scientists wanted to know how much smoking could increase our risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis by.<\/p>\n To find out, they followed 98,995 women between 1990 and now, collecting questionnaires from them every two to three years.<\/p>\n These questionnaires included information regarding their health, any medical events they might have experienced, their environments, and their lifestyle details. They also had to report their arthritis diagnoses and medication.<\/p>\n Complete information was available for 71,248 of the women, with 371 of them reporting rheumatoid arthritis.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, active smokers were 38% more likely to develop arthritis than non-smokers, but this was where the predictability ended.<\/p>\n When they separated the active smokers, who were exposed to secondhand smoke as children, from active smokers who had not been so exposed, they found a difference.<\/p>\n Active smokers who received secondhand smoke while they were children were also found to be 67% more likely to develop arthritis than active smokers whose parents had not smoked.<\/p>\n Most surprisingly, people who had never smoked but whose parents exposed them to secondhand smoke as children were 43% more likely to have arthritis than people who had never smoked and who had not been exposed to secondhand smoke as children.<\/p>\n In other words, passive smoking around a child during their adolescence and active smoking were estimated to be equally harmful when it comes to getting arthritis.<\/p>\n Rheumatoid arthritis also kicked in earlier in people who had taken in passive smoke as children.<\/p>\n Now, regardless of whether second hand smoking contributed to your arthritis, the main question would be how can you heal it today?<\/p>\n