Rheumatoid Arthritis, Is It Fatal? - Dr. Ruderman (VIDEO)
Dr. Ruderman discusses if rheumatoid arthritis is a fatal condition.
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Dr. Ruderman:
And so rheumatoid arthritis, if not well treated, actually can lead to other complications that can in fact be fatal. And so, historically, we have always assumed that people with rheumatoid arthritis die earlier. Lately, with better therapies and aggressive treatment that starts early before a lot of damage is done we actually do not know that that necessarily has to be the case and we can actually reduce the mortality of the disease by controlling the disease better.
About Dr. Ruderman, M.D.:
Dr. Eric M. Ruderman, M.D., is associate professor in the division of rheumatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a board member of the Arthritis Foundation of Greater Chicago.
Dr. Ruderman graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York, New York. He completed his residence at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship training in rheumatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
