Information on Rheumatoid Arthritis – Arthritis Relief https://arthritisrelief.org Natural Arthritis Pain Relief Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:55:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.16 Information on Rheumatoid Arthritis | What You Need to Know to Live a Fulfilling Life with RA https://arthritisrelief.org/about/information-on-rheumatoid-arthritis/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:23:57 +0000 http://arthritisrelief.org/?p=32 General Information on Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease. It occurs when the body mistakenly attacks your body's own tissues, which causes pain and swelling in the joints, erosion of bones, and, eventually, joint deformity. Signs and symptoms of RA are not specific to bones and joints, however, but can also be seen in the rest of your body, including mental health issues. Prevalence Information on Rheumatoid Arthritis shows the disease affects approximately 1.3 million individuals in the United States. Of these, 300,000 are children afflicted with a specific kind of RA called Juvenile Rheumatoid

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