Posts Tagged ‘Preventive Care with Rheumatoid Arthritis’
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Can We Treat the Whole Person or at Least the Whole Disease?
I got a letter today about one of the most important issues we could discuss. I’m introducing a new tag: Comprehensive RA Care. It is vital to our living healthier and longer lives and more than one blog post can cover. Putting it as simply as possible, it is now known that Rheumatoid Arthritis is a systemic, [...]
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Do you have a Rheumatology Care Team?
What’s a rheumatology care team? When I wrote the About pages for this site, I discussed the team of doctors and medical professionals that a person fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis might gather around him. Like Diabetes, I realized that people with RA could need plenty of monitoring and advice. The other day, I read an article in [...]
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2 Reasons Monitoring Rheumatoid Arthritis Matters
This is the second in a short series of posts in honor of the blog’s 2nd birthday. We are looking at some significant topics that have surfaced over the last two years. I’m calling these “frying pan posts” since these issues are critical enough to patients to speak rather bluntly. Why monitor Rheumatoid Arthritis? You [...]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Periodontal Disease
Does gum disease have anything to do with Rheumatoid Arthritis? Some of the popular studies presented at the ACR meeting last November examined the relationship between periodontal disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Is there a relationship? And what is it? Over the last few years, it has been shown that RA patients are more likely to [...]
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New Studies Examine Predictors of Rheumatoid (Arthritis) Heart Disease
Predictors of Heart Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis New Studies presented at ACR 2010 (the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting) examined of the heart disease of Rheumatoid Arthritis. One study called Longitudinal Predictors of Progression of Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis looked for factors which predict heart disease in RA patients. “Coronary and extra-coronary [...]
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New Greece Shoe Policy for Diabetics Favors Amputation
When she picked me up from the airport recently, Katie Beth shared a shocking story she’d just heard on the news about diabetes patients in Greece receiving foot amputations instead of special shoes. Here’s how the diabetes shoe-story was reported in Keep Talking Greece: “If this isn’t an incredible story, I don’t know what it [...]
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Problems with Preventive Care and Rheumatoid Arthritis Mortality
If you read yesterday’s blog, “The Mortality Dragon: Do Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have to Die Early?” then you know I was glad to find a researcher discussing preventive care for Rheumatoid Arthritis patients, especially in the context of cardiovascular disease. If you read the article “Why do people with rheumatoid arthritis still die prematurely?” you [...]
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The Mortality Dragon: Do Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have to Die Early?
Reasons for the high mortality rate with Rheumatoid Arthritis This is not a morbid post. If we’re going to fight a dragon, we need to know about the dragon. Why do Rheumatoid Arthritis patients have such a high mortality rate? Some of you have probably heard me speculate about mortality and RA in response to [...]
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