Rheumatoid arthritis is a lifelong disabling disease, leading to progressive joint damage and subsequent long-term functional disability. Evaluation of the prognostic factors at the onset of the disease provides the physician prospective information on patient outcome. This article briefly describes the prognosis factors associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that preferentially affects joints and progresses over time along with joint destruction and deformity.
It may also lead to severe disability in a large percentage of affected people, work loss and even shortened survival. The challenge for the rheumatologist is to identify patients who present a poor prognosis in early rheumatoid arthritis and formulate treatment accordingly. Prognostic factors (PF) are sociodemographic, clinical, radiological and…
