Pathophysiology of Metabolic Diseases: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Epidemiology/Etiology Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic chronic autoimmune (AI) disease, that causes chronic inflammation to joints. It is an inflammation arthritis, that affects the synovial fluid in the joints. Subsequent pannus formation may lead to cartilage destruction and bone erosion 1 . The destruction process is caused by the body over producing cytokines. The […]
