Re: Re: RESEARCH - Association between the aggrecan gene and RA

[Guest guest]

Yes, Sue and Betsy, ever having smoked is a higher risk than never

having smoked.

Not an MD

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Sue <marysue@...> wrote:

> Betsy, maybe you had already messed up your genes by the previous

> smoking. That's what I think about myself, anyway. I quit smoking

> almost 15 years ago, but I had already done lots of damage to myself.

>

> It is strange how things happen, though. I started exercising and

> changed my eating habits and managed to lose some excess weight, and

> then I got RA. Of course that was not the reason I got it.

>

> Sue