People who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to reduce heart disease risk may also be cutting their risk for developing the painful inflammatory joint disease rheumatoid arthritis.

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A new criteria that redefines how rheumatoid arthritis should be classified could prevent thousands of people from developing the disease at a late stage, according to new research.

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The risk of getting diabetes is about 50 percent higher in patients with autoimmune forms of arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Chronic pain, including pain from rheumatoid arthritis, seems to be more debilitating for women, a recent study suggests. Doctors are finding that women have more recurrent pain and more disabilities from pain than men.

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 A recent study suggests that drinking alcohol may fight rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Those who drink, at least three to four drinks weekly, are four times less likely to have RA. Drinking also seems to lessen the severity of the disease. 

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 Challenging a long-held belief, a new study has found that routine vaccines do not increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

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The Annual Congress of the European League against Rheumatism released a report linking RA with a heightened risk of a heart attack at an earlier age. The ten year study showed that women with rheumatoid arthritis under the age of 50 have six times the normal risk of experiencing a heart attack.

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Recent analysis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prevalence rates from 1995-2005 showed an increase in RA rates in American women. The decrease in rates from 1955-1994 led researchers to assume the decline continued, yet the Mayo Clinic has confirmed that there has been a 2.5% increase in RA rates in American women from 1995-2005.

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A new study conducted by the Boston University School of Public Health highlights that women living in the northeastern United States are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggesting a link between the autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency.

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According to a new study by Reuters Health, women with rheumatoid arthritis are 47 precent more likely to have a low birth weight baby and 19 percent more likely to require a C-section.