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Even at the highest dose, the steady dilution of rIL-1Ra in the presence of constant IL-1β synthesis rapidly lost its protective effects.
"The politics of scandal is doing what mere policy hasn't done since Republicans took Congress in 1994--forcing the Great Triangulator back into the protective custody of his party's liberals," Paul Gigot wrote last week in the Wall Street Journal .
Although this analysis was principally an exploratory analysis to guide prospective studies, the authors had previously proposed that certain elements of adolescent diet might be protective against future risk of breast cancer [ 10 ] . For instance, we and others have proposed that fiber might be protective by lowering endogenous estrogen levels and that folate might be protective owing to its role in DNA methylation.
Presence of the apolipoprotein E4 allele is a protective factor, and other alleles entail risk factors [ 24].
Indeed, even a protective effect of smoking on risk for developing RA has been described among women [ 29 ] . The smoking-RA risk is more consistent across studies on men.