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- From: cindy@berkp.uadv.uci.edu (Cindy Windham)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Arthritis
- Message-ID: <cindy.242@berkp.uadv.uci.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:22:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.210508.3180@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan19.210508.3180@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
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- >[reply to pwageman@jupiter.spk.wa.us]
- >
- >>How is it determined whether a person has rheumatoid or osteoarthritis,
- >>aren't the symptoms primarily the same?
- >
- >There are differences in which joints are preferentially affected and
- >blood tests which are usually positive in rheumatoid arthritis. These
- >are both types of arthritis, but rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune
- >disorder while osteoarthritis is due more to "wear and tear". There are
- >differences in treatment, also.
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- >David Nye
- >nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
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- I have a couple of questions about osteoarthritis. First, is there a
- treatment for osteoarthritis? Second, is it possible to get osteoarthritis
- in the finger joints from the repeated stress of typing on a keyboard?
-
- - Cindy Windham
-