Rheumatoid Arthritis Meaning In English

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Meaning

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease that means your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in your body, causing painful inflammation in affected areas of the body. Rheumatoid Arthritis commonly affects joints in the hands, wrists, and knees.

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Causes of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when the immune system attacks healthy body tissue.


Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis: 1) Tender, warm, swollen joints. 2) Joint stiffness is usually worse in the morning and after inactivity. 3) Fatigue, fever and loss of appetite.


Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: If you are diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, you will usually be given a combination of DMARD (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) tablets as part of your initial treatment.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis tissue damage can cause long-term or chronic pain, instability and deformity.