Targeting disease remission has socio-economic benefits over low disease activity
Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 20:40
in Health & Medicine
Achieving disease remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provides superior outcomes across measures of socio-economic importance including work productivity and quality of life, according to results of a new study. These Austrian findings are reported in addition to improvements in measures of physical functioning, when compared with RA patients achieving low disease activity.