Patients with RA have easier time than two decades ago

New research reveals that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an easier time with daily living than patients diagnosed two decades ago.  According to results of the study published in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), anxiety, depressed mood and physical disability have been cut in half over the last 20 years. Researchers believe a reduction in disease activity is partly responsible for this positive change.  The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to one percent of the world population experience pain and swelling of joints caused by RA, a systemic autoimmune