{"id":19932,"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/07\/disability-often-precedes-rheumatoid-arthritis-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:09:55","slug":"disability-often-precedes-rheumatoid-arthritis-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/07\/disability-often-precedes-rheumatoid-arthritis-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Often Precedes Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Functional disability continues even after diagnosis and treatment<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, May 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Most patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience functional disability (FD) that may precede RA diagnosis and persist throughout the disease course, according to a study published online April 30 in <i>Mayo Clinic Proceedings<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Elena Myasoedova, M.D., Ph.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues compared trends in FD among 586 patients with RA and 531 individuals without RA.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found a higher prevalence of FD in those with RA versus those without at RA incidence or index date (26 versus 11 percent). This excess in FD was persistent over the follow-up period and calendar time. For most age groups, patients with RA had \u226515 percent prevalence of FD versus individuals without RA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These findings suggest that the burden of FD affects most patients with RA, begins early in the disease course, and may precede RA diagnosis,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinicproceedings.org\/article\/S0025-6196(19)30005-9\/fulltext\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Functional disability continues even after diagnosis and treatment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-19932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}