The Relationship Between Climate Change and Rheumatic Disease: A Review

Understanding some of the potential health effects of exposure to wildfires and elevating heat, specifically increases in incidence of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, disease activity, hospitalization risk, and disease biomarkers is important for clinicians, and represents an opportunity to educate their patients in the clinical setting and monitor them for health effects of climate change manifestations.