RA primarily affects the joints, but it can also cause symptoms in other areas of the body, such as the skin. Learn how RA ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD Psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are both forms of inflammatory arthritis. They each cause chronic swelling, stiffness, and pain in your joints.

Objective Excess cholesterol loading on arterial macrophages is linked to foam cell formation, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the effect of changes in ...

Background Aiming at therapeutic targets has reduced the risk of organ failure in many diseases such as diabetes or hypertension. Such targets have not been defined for rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Objective To investigate the real-world impact of intravenous belimumab treatment among patients with SLE using rheumatoid arthritis-derived disease activity measures and SLE-related laboratory values ...

Background: Existing studies of solid cancers in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) reflect cancer morbidity up until the early 1990s in prevalent cohorts admitted to hospital during the 1980s. Objective: To ...

Surveillance Alone. Once malignancy and abnormal thyroid function have been excluded, there is really no need to treat thyroid nodules unless they are already causing compression or cosmetic symptoms.

Objective To quantify rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cases attributable to selected non-genetic risk factors. Design National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and meta-analysis.

A recent study reveals a significant 13% rise in rheumatoid arthritis incidence since 1990, impacting nearly 18 million people globally by 2021. The disease, which causes joint pain and ...

Global rheumatoid arthritis burden increased: From 1980 to 2021, the global rheumatoid arthritis burden kept rising, showing an increase among younger age groups and a wider range of geographic ...

Objective Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an important cause of mortality in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patient-level factors may predict which patients with RA are at the ...

"I can't do my daily life because my fingers are stiff in the morning"The stiffening of the finger joints in the morning 'articular stiffness' is a characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid ...