Rheumatoid
arthritis is an autoimmune disease that can cause chronic inflammation of
the joints and other areas of the body.
While
early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis can actually be mimicked by other
diseases, the symptoms are very characteristic of rheumatoid disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and signs include the following:
- Fatigue
- Joint pain
- Joint tenderness
- Joint swelling
- Joint redness
- Joint warmth
- Joint stiffness
- Loss of joint range of motion
- Limping
- Joint deformity
- Many joints affected (polyarthritis)
- Both sides of the body affected
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