Population
100 patients with early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
20 years
Authors
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RA confers substantial premature mortality; leaves open whether modern therapies narrow this gap.
Early rheumatoid arthritis is a severely disabling and potentially lethal disease associated with significant premature mortality and functional decline.
Rasker et al. (1989) studied this question.
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