Image by cloudsoup via FlickrRheumatoid arthritis - the scourge of aging human beings...
By Peter Petterson
First published at Qondio:
Just what is rheumatoid arthritis? It is a chronic, progressive and debilitating auto-immune disease. There are about 400,000 sufferers in the United Kingdom alone.
It is also a very painful condition, which can cause severe disability and inevitably affects sufferers from carrying out day to day tasks. It causes swelling and damages both cartilage and bones in and around joints.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms:
The most common arthritis symptoms are pains in one or more joints. Many people overlook these RA symptoms as just being part of overuse, but the enlightened ones take these symptoms seriously and get them confirmed by their doctors.
Classic symptoms and warning signs:
1/ Constant joint pain in several locations
2/ Swelling, stiffness and redness
3/ Specific pain in specific spot
4/ Decrease in the range of motion - flexibility
5/ Joints begin to deform
6/ You are always feeling weak, tired and extremely fatigued
Rheumatoid arthritis and your heart:
RA doubles heart attack odds.
People with RA typically face double the risk of a heart attack compared to the general population. A new ten-year European study found that women with RA under the age of 50 years are six more times more at risk of a heart attack, while for anybody else with RA the risk was comparable to those with diabetes.
"Cardiovascular risk management is urgently needed for RA patients," commented Dr Michael Nurmohammed of the VU University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.
"Treatment with statins or antihypertensives may be required." he added further.
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