Arthritis Today readers often ask, “Why me? Why did I end up with arthritis? Was there something I could have done to prevent it?” Researchers have long asked similar questions: Are arthritis and its related inflammation the result of nature or nurture? Are genetics or environmental factors more influential? “Swell Science” shares researchers’ latest clues to these and other questions, and provides readers insight into how genes control their immune system and how substances that enter their bodies affect their genes -and their propensity to have joints swell.
