Types of pain and their psychosocial impact in women with rheumatoid arthritis
Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease predominantly affecting middle-aged women. Very commonly, pain is a manifestation of active disease and because untreated RA can result in joint deformities, the current evaluation of pain has largely focused on inflamm...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-08-01
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Series: | Women's Midlife Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40695-019-0047-4 |