Posts Tagged ‘RA’
The Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lymphoma
Thursday, January 5th, 2012“A body part from the pain disappeared, and four parts of the body,” Burke said. ”What a beautiful place where I can not immediately go walking or lying down or pick up my second child, who is 10 months old when in I went to see a rheumatologist, I was completely disabled.” (more…)
ccp rheumatoid arthritis
Monday, June 13th, 2011Rheumatoid arthritis, the most common form of arthritis causes inflammation of the tissue present in the joints and other organs of the body. Rheumatoid arthritis or popularly known as RA is an autoimmune diseases that occurs when the body tissues are erroneously attacked by our own immune system considering it to as a foreign matter or particles. The investigation and estimation depends upon the aggravation of symptoms, the blood and X-ray findings and the degree of inflammation. It generally begins amid the age group of 30 and 50 years and is more frequent in women and habitual smokers.
100 interesting facts about rheumatoid arthritis
Thursday, June 9th, 2011- 1 in 5 adults living in the United States reports having doctor-diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis.
- Nearly 1 in 3 adults living in the United States has either doctor-diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis or chronic joint symptoms that have not been diagnosed by a doctor. This number is up from 1 in 6 adults in 1998, and the number continues to increase as the population increases.
- rheumatoid arthritis is second only to heart disease as a cause of work disability.
- 39 million physician visits and more than 500,000 hospitalizations are attributable to rheumatoid arthritis. (more…)