Rheumatic diseases affect your joints tendons, ligaments, bones, and muscles. They include many types of arthritis, a term used for conditions that affect your joints. Sometimes, they’re called ...

The prevalence of frailty was 33% among a US-wide cohort of patients with RMDs, with the highest rates found among those with fibromyalgia or CTDs.

Being diagnosed with a rheumatic disease is a life-altering experience that can feel overwhelming and intimidating. Rheumatic ...

Rheumatic diseases encompass many conditions affecting your joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and bones, including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and gout.

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD A number of diseases mimic the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune form of arthritis. These include bacterial joint infections, inflammatory ...

How Does Chemotherapy Treat Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases? In many rheumatic diseases, inflammation causes damage to parts of the body; for example - causing painful joints as in rheumatoid ...

Men with rheumatic conditions also had a higher prevalence of childlessness than controls (mean difference 4.7%), with most diseases showing no difference but some diseases resulting in much ...

Postmenopausal women often have rheumatic symptoms and disorders unrelated to AI therapy, [6,7] so one must be wary of attributing causation from mere presence. Still, the current presumptive ...

There are general risk factors for patients with rheumatic disease developing interstitial lung disease, but there are also disease-specific risk factors depending on which rheumatic disease they ...

In patients with established rheumatic and autoimmune disorders, including systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, it is not uncommon to observe amplified symptoms discordant with ...

THE relation between the thyroid gland and rheumatic disorders has long excited interest. 1–7 In particular, an association between some of the connective-tissue diseases and Hashimoto's ...