CONFLICT OF INTEREST none declared. AIM Rheumatoid arthritis is considered a clinical syndrome across several disease subsets characterized by systemic inflammation, persistent synovitis, and autoantibodies. Our aim was to assess the distribution of risk factors among people diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the adult population of Tirana, the capital city of Albania. METHODS All indiv...

Periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis are both inflammatory diseases. It is well known that there are associations between periodontitis and other systematic diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and alterations during pregnancy. This review analyses the literature available dealing with the relationship between periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Periodontiti...

The familial aggregation of rheumatoid arthritis was examined to determine factors modifying the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in first degree relatives of 165 cases ascertained from January 1, 1987, through March 31, 1987, using the Saint Margaret Memorial Hospital Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, without regard to previous information concerning the occurrence of rheuma...

Data from population- and clinic-based epidemiologic studies of rheumatoid arthritis patients suggest that individuals with rheumatoid arthritis are at risk for developing clinically evident congestive heart failure. Many established risk factors for congestive heart failure are over-represented in rheumatoid arthritis and likely account for some of the increased risk observed. In particular, d...

Objectives To determine if patients with rheumatoid arthritis have increased risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke. Design Longitudinal nationwide register based cohort study. Setting Inpatient and outpatient hospital care in Denmark from 1997 to 2009. Participants Entire Danish population aged over 15 years without rheumatoid arthritis, atrial fibrillation, or stroke before 1997. Participants...

In March, 1948, Rose and others described a test for rheumatoid arthritis which depended on the ability of serum from patients with rheumatoid arthritis to agglutinate " sensitized " sheep erythrocytes in much higher titre than normal sheep erythrocytes. The authors reported results in 110 patients, of whom 27 had active rheumatoid arthritis and 16 inactive rheumatoid arthritis, 3 Still's disea...

Recent clinical studies of rheumatoid arthritis reveal that therapeutic intervention early in rheumatoid arthritis leads to less joint damage, indicating the importance of early diagnosis of RA for improvement of prognosis. According to the data of our "Early Arthritis Prospective Cohort", we have found that early arthritis patients, described as undifferentiated arthritis, progress to rheumato...

Raised serum IgG and IgM antibody levels to native type II collagen were found in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in patients with juvenile chronic arthritis. There was a good correlation between the serum IgG and the IgM antibody levels in rheumatoid arthritis and a weaker correlation in juvenile chronic arthritis. Raised serum IgM antibody levels to native type II collagen were found i...

INTRODUCTION Incidental discovery or diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis where the patient remains blissfully unaware of his affection is a rare occurrence. CASE DESCRIPTION We present the case of a telephone wireman in whom Rheumatoid Arthritis neither affected his activities of daily living nor caused any deformity to develop. It remained asymptomatic till its incidental discovery during his ...

To the best of our knowledge, the association of rheumatoid arthritis and tabetic arthropathy has never been described before in the literature. We report here a first observation. We report the case of a 50-year-old man, treated for syphilitic arthritis evolving for 4 years, who presented with a table of rheumatoid arthritis. The diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis was established according to t...