Antibiotics are lifesaving medications, but they may also pose problems with autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.
and blood tests for rheumatoid arthritis. There’s no cure for RA, but medications can help manage the symptoms by controlling the inflammatory response. Decreasing the inflammation can...
Curlie directory for category Health: Conditions and Diseases: Musculoskeletal Disorders: Arthritis: Rheumatoid. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that causes joint pain, stiffness, swellin...
Why go natural?Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the membranes that line the joints and causes inflammation. There’s no cure for this chronic condition, and...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation of the joints. RA is a chronic and progressive condition that causes debilitating effects on the patient. The condition is characterized by pain and stiff joints. Another typical feature of this disorder is bone and joint destruction and the presence of autoantibodies in the serum and synovial fluid. Synovial fluid is the fluid that lubricates the synovial joints. The exact mechanism by which patients develop RA is unknown; however, a combination of genetic and environ ...
Mechanism-driven strategies for prevention of rheumatoid arthritis
Antibiotics are prescribed to treat a wide range of bacterial... factor for increasing susceptibility to infections and... idiopathic arthritis (JIA) [7,8,9,10]. RA is a chronic autoimmune...
however, many at risk may not know whether they are at risk for severe rheumatoid arthritis.... They will study whether targeting it using antibiotics or specific genes and metabolites can...
Certain genes have been identified that increase the risk for rheumatoid arthritis. It is also suspected that certain infections or factors in the environment might trigger the activation...
Rheumatoid arthritis affects 1 in 100 people worldwide. It causes inflamed, painful and swollen joints, often in the hands and wrists, and can lead to loss of joint function as well as chronic pain and joint deformities and damage. What causes this condition has been unknown. In our recently published study, my colleagues and I found an important clue to a potential culprit behind this disease: the bacteria in your gut. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition, meaning it develops when the body's immune system starts to attack itself. Pr ...