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Taking a combination oral contraceptive (birth control pills) may have a protective effect. According to researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, women who used an estrogen-containing contraceptive for longer than seven years had a nearly 20% decreased risk of the most common type of rheumatoid arthritis compared to women who never took the pill.

Source: Verywell health

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