PCBs and Dioxins Either Cause or Make Worse Both Osteo and Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, while osteoarthritis is presumed to be a disease due to wear and tear causing damage to joints. Some environmental exposures, such as smoking, air pollution and possibly persistent organic pollutants, are known to increase the risk of both. We have utilized the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to determine associations between self-reported prevalence of any form of arthritis, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis and various polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, several chlorinated pesticides and 2.3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-dioxin (TCDD). We find that there is a statistically significant association between serum PCB levels of more highly chlorinated PCB congeners and both types of arthritis. The associations are stronger with rheumatoid arthritis than with osteoarthritis, and stronger in women than in men.
Keywords:
Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteo-arthritis, NHANES, Persistent organic pollutants, Polychlorinated biphenyls, Chlorinated pesticides
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MOHAMMAD, Azad; CARPENTER, David O..
PCBs and Dioxins Either Cause or Make Worse Both Osteo and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 10, n. 7, july 2022.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/2900>. Date accessed: 03 july 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v10i7.2900.
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2. Cross M, Smith E, Hoy D, et al. The global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis: estimates from the global burden of disease 2010 study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014;73(7):1323-1330. doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204763
3. GBD 2013 DALYs and HALE Collaborators, Murray CJ, Barber RM, et al. Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition. Lancet. 2015;386(10009):2145-2191. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61340-X
4. Guo Q, Wang Y, Xu D, Nossent J, Pavlos NJ, Xu J. Rheumatoid arthritis: pathological mechanisms and modern pharmacologic therapies. Bone Res. 2018;6:15. Published 2018 Apr 27. doi:10.1038/s41413-018-0016-9
5. Medina G, Vera-Lastra O, Peralta-Amaro AL, et al. Metabolic syndrome, autoimmunity and rheumatic diseases. Pharmacol Res. 2018;133:277-288. doi:10.1016/j.phrs.2018.01.009
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8. Mohammed A, Alshamarri T, Adeyeye T, Lazariu V, McNutt LA, Carpenter DO. A comparison of risk factors for osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis using NHANES data. Prev Med Rep. 2020;20:101242. Published 2020 Nov 5. doi:10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101242.
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11. Stolt P, Bengtsson C, Nordmark B, et al. Quantification of the influence of cigarette smoking on rheumatoid arthritis: results from a population based case-control study, using incident cases. Ann Rheum Dis. 2003;62(9):835-841. doi:10.1136/ard.62.9.835
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13. Hart JE, Laden F, Puett RC, Costenbader KH, Karlson EW. Exposure to traffic pollution and increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Environ Health Perspect. 2009;117(7):1065-1069. doi:10.1289/ehp.0800503
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15. De Roos AJ, Koehoorn M, Tamburic L, Davies HW, Brauer M. Proximity to traffic, ambient air pollution, and community noise in relation to incident rheumatoid arthritis. Environ Health Perspect. 2014;122(10):1075-1080. doi:10.1289/ehp.1307413
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24. Turner W., DiPietro E., Lapeza C., Green V., Gill J., Patterson, D.G. , Jr. A fast universal automated cleanup system for the isotope-dilution highresolution mass spectrometric analysis of pcdds, pcdfs, coplanar pcbs, pcb congeners, and persistent pesticides from the same serum sample. Organohalogen compounds 31: 26-31 (1997).
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27. ATSDR, Thallium. "ATSDR (Agency for toxic substances and disease registry)." Prepared by clement international corp., under contract 205 (2000): 88-0608.
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32. Valentine, R. J., Vieira, V. J., Woods, J. A., & Evans, E. M. (2009). Stronger relationship between central adiposity and C-reactive protein in older women than men. Menopause, 16(1), 84-89
33. Khera A, McGuire DK, Murphy SA, et al. Race and gender differences in C-reactive protein levels. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46(3):464-469. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2005.04.051
34. Giles JT, Bartlett SJ, Andersen R, Thompson R, Fontaine KR, Bathon JM. Association of body fat with C-reactive protein in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2008;58(9):2632-2641. doi:10.1002/art.23766.
35. Tabb MM, Kholodovych V, Grün F, Zhou C, Welsh WJ, Blumberg B. Highly chlorinated PCBs inhibit the human xenobiotic response mediated by the steroid and xenobiotic receptor (SXR). Environ Health Perspect. 2004;112(2):163-169. doi:10.1289/ehp.6560
36. Al-Salman F, Plant N. Non-coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are direct agonists for the human pregnane-X receptor and constitutive androstane receptor, and activate target gene expression in a tissue-specific manner. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2012;263(1):7-13. doi:10.1016/j.taap.2012.05.016
37. Kamata R, Shiraishi F, Kageyama S, Nakajima D. Detection and measurement of the agonistic activities of PCBs and mono-hydroxylated PCBs to the constitutive androstane receptor using a recombinant yeast assay. Toxicol In Vitro. 2015;29(7):1859-1867. doi:10.1016/j.tiv.2015.07.021
38. Kamata R, Nakajima D, Shiraishi F. Measurement of the agonistic activities of monohydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls at the retinoid X and retinoic acid receptors using recombinant yeast cells. Toxicol In Vitro. 2019;57:9-17. doi:10.1016/j.tiv.2019.01.022
39. Johnson CD, Balagurunathan Y, Tadesse MG, et al. Unraveling gene-gene interactions regulated by ligands of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. Environ Health Perspect. 2004;112(4):403-412. doi:10.1289/ehp.6758
40. Maier MS, Legare ME, Hanneman WH. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl induces distinct patterns of gene expression between hepatoma and glioma cells: chromatin remodeling as a mechanism for selective effects. Neurotoxicology. 2007;28(3):594-612.