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Low social class has been identified as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in highly industrialized countries. The authors discuss the social class concept in relation to psychosocial working conditions. Most of those psychosocial work characteristics that are of relevance to cardiovascular risk, namely, skill discretion, authority over decisions, and social support at work, are unevenly distributed across social classes--the lower the social class, the fewer the resources for coping with psychosocial stressors.

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The origin and significance of anti-DNA antibodies.

Immunol Today

October 2014

The Bloomsbury Rheumatology Department, University College and The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, UK; The Department of Internal Medicine D and Research Units of Autoimmune Diseases, Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Polyreactive autoantibodies able to bind double-stranded DNA are a characteristic of systemic lucus erytheamtosus. Here, David Isenberg and Yehuda Shoenfeld discuss the likelihood that DNA is the immunogen in this disorder, and review a number of cross-reactions that may underline the detection of the antibodies.

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