Prevalence of Familial Occurrence in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

18 August 1988

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Rheumatology

Vol. XXVII (suppl 2) , 150-152
https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/xxvii.suppl_2.150

Abstract

We studied 985 consecutive patients with definite or classical rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at an arthritis clinic, between April 1976 and August 1986, to investigate the prevalence of familial disease. We have demonstrated that at least 10.9% of unrelated patients with definite or classical RA have one or more first-degree relative(s) affected with definite or classical RA. Moreover, familial RA is not more severe than the more prevalent non-familial, i.e. sporadic, form of the disease.

Keywords

CLASSICAL RA
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
FAMILIAL RA
CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS
CLASSICAL RHEUMATOID
UNRELATED PATIENTS
ARTHRITIS CLINIC
FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE

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