{"id":4990,"date":"2012-04-01T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2012-04-01T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T12:03:26","slug":"smoking-significantly-ups-arthritis-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2012\/04\/01\/smoking-significantly-ups-arthritis-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Significantly Ups Arthritis Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/smoking_arthritis-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"smoking_arthritis\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/smoking_arthritis-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/smoking_arthritis.png 501w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Smoking can significantly increase the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and may worsen symptoms, a new study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. The study also found that women are significantly more likely to suffer from the disease than similarly-aged men.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers aren\u2019t sure why smoking is so closely tied to RA, but they think that inhaling tobacco smoke stimulates the release of compounds known as pro-inflammatory cytokines. These compounds are known to be involved in the development and progression of RA.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this all natural way to <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/arthritis\/\">tackle arthritis&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking can significantly increase the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and may worsen symptoms, a new study published by the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. The study also found that women are significantly more likely to suffer from the disease than similarly-aged men. Researchers aren\u2019t sure why smoking is so closely tied to RA, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arthritis","category-articles"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/smoking_arthritis.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}