Rheumatoid arthritis patients better off than decades ago

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Rheumatoid arthritis patients better off than decades ago

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with rheumatoid arthritis are better off than they were 20 years ago, according to new research from the Netherlands. Researchers found about half as many people were considered disabled after the first four years of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment in 2011, compared to 1990. "The results of our study relay the hopeful message to patients that today, in spite of having rheumatoid arthritis, they have a better opportunity to live a full and valued life than 20 years ago," Cécile Overman wrote in an email to Reuters Health. Overman is the study's lead author and a doctoral student in clinical and health psychology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

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