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Natural Cure For Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain
By Juliet

Rheumatoid is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. Rheumatoid is a common rheumatic disease, affecting more than two million people in the United States. RA is a systemic disease, often affecting extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles. About 60% of RA patients are unable to work 10 years after the onset of their disease. Rheumatoid is two to three times more common in women than in men and generally strikes between the ages of 20 and 50. But rheumatoid can also affect young children. Patients with autoimmune diseases have antibodies in their blood that target their own body tissues, where they can be associated with inflammation. The joints are usually affected initially asymmetrically and then in a symmetrical fashion as the disease progresses. The pain generally improves with use of the affected joints, and there is usually stiffness of all joints in the morning that lasts over 1 hour. People with these genes will not automatically develop RA. In some families, multiple members can be affected, suggesting a genetic basis for the disorder

Rheumatoid is associated with a variety of forms of vasculitis. Rheumatoid is different from osteoarthritis, the common that often comes with older age. RA can affect body parts besides joints, such as your eyes, mouth and lungs. Rheumatoid affects people differently. For some people, it lasts only a few months or a year or two and goes away without causing any noticeable damage. Other people have mild or moderate forms of the disease, with periods of worsening symptoms, called flares, and periods in which they feel better, called remissions. RA usually affects joints on both sides of the body equally. Wrists, fingers, knees, feet, and ankles are the most commonly affected. RA is a diffuse systemic disease involving many areas of the body. The presenting complaint may be remote from a joint or may involve

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