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Autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most frequent chronic inflammatory joint disease. Its prevalence is approximately 1% of populations in the western world. RA is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized primarily by polyarticular, symmetric synovitis. It commonly has a relentlessly progressive course, although exacerbations can often interchange with periods of improvement. Rarely, spontaneous remission may occur.

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Smolen, J.S. (1996). Autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis. In: van Venrooij, W.J., Maini, R.N. (eds) Manual of Biological Markers of Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1670-1_37

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