When most of us think of arthritis, we picture an elderly person. Arthritis can affect people at any age and rheumatoid arthritis in particular has been known to affect young children. This chronic medical condition usually occurs in joints that are present on both sides of the body such as the knees, hands, or wrists. [...]
Immune system in this condition starts to attack body tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is the joint tissue that is attacked. There are many kinds of arthritis occurring in children which are very distinct from the types occurring in adults. Children with arthritis have better chance of outgrowing the arthritis. This means that they have low chance [...]
The chronic disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects between 0.5 and one percent of people in the U.S. Approximately 75 percent of those diagnosed with the condition are female. Any one of us can get RA but it usually begins affecting a person between age 20 and 60. However, juveniles can also get this painful disease [...]
