Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis

COM/156 University Composition and Communication II

Submitted To: Professor Nicole Provender

Submitted By; Rachell Scott

Date: February 16, 2012

"Rheumatoid arthritis is a standard example of a complex disease in which a variety of hereditary and environmental elements add to the disease process"(Murray,2010). RA is the most feared disease that affects young adults and continues in old age. Because the disease can happen at any age, it is more common at the age of twenty to forty years. Rheumatoid arthritis is most difficult, painful, and possible crippling disease; it is chronic, is defined by flare-ups and remittance, and impacts over six million Americans. Many victims delay treatment for three or four years, which bring about unnecessary crippling. RA is sometimes called "the great crippler" because of the disfigurations that comes with it. Rheumatoid arthritis is a weakening immune system disease that can impact one's life greatly. Individuals living with RA have a continuous fear of becoming disabled.

The normal and recognized ways of defining Rheumatoid Arthritis is by using the categorization criteria. Categorization criteria changes the classification of groups of people into those who have RA and those that do not have RA in order to evaluate success into related studies and clinical trials, and render the base for a common movement to disease explanation that can be used to equate across studies and centers. These criteria are well acknowledged as rendering the criterion for the definition of the disease, but have a substantial restriction in that they were gained by trying to separate patients with known RA apart from those with an alliance of other certain rheumatologic results. They are therefore unhelpful in succeeding the goal of defining patients who would gain from effective intercession....