Currency and diagnostic criteria of rheumatoid arthritis in patients of senior age groups
This article presents the results of the study of the peculiarities of the course and diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in elderly people. In our work we studied 56 RA patients. Of these, 25 (44.6%) of the patients first fell ill in old age, 16 (28.5%) of patients became ill for more than 15 years and 15 (26.7%) of patients younger than 45…