Healthy Weight and Rheumatoid Arthritis WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Healthy Weight and Rheumatoid Arthritis
A healthy weight can reduce the risk of getting rheumatoid arthritis, or improve symptoms for those who already have the condition. Being overweight can affect people with rheumatoid arthritis by lowering their quality of life even further than the arthritis alone would.1 Obesity can also reduce the chances of rheumatoid arthritis going into remission.2
Fast Facts:
- Rheumatoid arthritis affects the joints by causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of function.3
- Rheumatoid arthritis is more common in women than in men.3
- There is no known cause of rheumatoid arthritis.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ About.com: Obesity Affects Quality of Life for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
- ↑ WebMD: Overweight Affects Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Remission
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 MedlinePlus: Rheumatoid Arthritis
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Healthy Weight, Health and Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Health
- Last update: Sep. 21, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.