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Following a hack that exposed more than 15,000 Roku accounts last month, the company said Friday it discovered a second security incident that affected 576,000 additional user accounts. Roku said ...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects joints. [1] It typically results in warm, swollen, and painful joints. [1] Pain and stiffness often worsen following rest. [1] Most commonly, the wrist and hands are involved, with the same joints typically involved on both sides of the body. [1]
Inflammatory arthritis is a group of diseases which includes: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, adult-onset Still's disease, scleroderma, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting about 237 million people or 3.3% of the world's population, as of 2015. [ 4 ] [ 12 ] It becomes more common as people age. [ 1 ] Among those over 60 years old, about 10% of males and 18% of females are affected. [ 2 ]
Since these types of arthritis are caused by inflammation, Dr. Kteleh says that people who have a diet high in inflammatory foods (like sugar or processed meat) or unhealthy lifestyle habits (like ...
While there are over 100 types of arthritis and related conditions, Dr. Gendai Echezona, a fellowship-trained, triple board-certified anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain ...
Up to 10% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at risk of sudden death due to unrecognized cord compression. [2] Thus surgical intervention is a reasonable choice in the presence of a neurologic deficit as a result of instability. In fact, early surgery for atlantoaxial subluxation may actually delay the debilitating progress of myelopathy ...
Pain, swelling, or stiffness in one or more joints is commonly present in psoriatic arthritis. [5] Psoriatic arthritis is inflammatory, and affected joints are generally red or warm to the touch. [5] Asymmetrical oligoarthritis, defined as inflammation affecting two to four joints during the first six months of disease, is present in 70% of ...