Rates of anxiety and depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis correlate with measures of the disease’s activity over the first year following diagnosis, according to new research.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects a person’s joints, causing pain and disability. RA is more common in older people, but there is also a high prevalence in young adults and adolescents. It affects women more frequently than men.
High rates of depression and...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/06/16/depression-anxiety-track-disease-activity-in-early-arthritis/136247.html
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