Comorbidity of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Psychiatry Disorder

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Comorbidity of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Psychiatry Disorder

Introduction

The term comorbid condition is used to refer denote the presence of two different medical conditions. Similarly, this study is going to analyze the presence of psychiatric disorder along with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The further definition of the term can be furnished in terms of recent (current) or past (previous) condition, and the condition of comorbid explained may as representative of an active, transient and previous illness. Current condition like interstitial lung disease, past influenza and past malignancies can be furnished as a decent example of the comorbid situation. This study in this connection will selectively reference the literature related to the comorbid situation among patients with RA. Additionally, the incompletion of literature will be compensated through the new analysis reports from a US based research database; National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases (NDB).

Interest of Studying Comorbidity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

This subject area has been the eye catcher of researchers and physicians owing to its effects on the life quality or LQ and on RA prediction and results. The usage of National Database Bank has facilitated the statistics related to comorbid condition (the index explain the nature of illness patients are facing in accordance with the medical sciences), because these statistics help in the revelation of the LQ as assessed by EuroQoL and reprinted in Figure 1 (Wolfe & Michaud, 2004).

However, as reprinted in Figure 2 (Wolfe & Michaud, 2004), it is natural to consider the functional position of RA as being linked primarily to RA. Figure 2 revealed in an explicit manner that comorbid illness has strong influence on the functional position or functional status of RA. Cormorbid situation can be an attraction for prognosis. For instance, cancer or myocardial infarction risk increases to a greater extent among ...