Late Onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis in the Elderly: Features of the Disease Course
Analyzed the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis taking into account gender differences, as well as clinical variants of its course in the elderly. In particular, in patients with late onset of rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly, there noticed the comparable or higher disease activity, the rate of x-ray progression compared to persons with early onset of pathology. The frequency of osteoporotic fractures in this population is significantly higher than in the general population, which is conditioned by the peculiarities of rheumatoid arthritis course, age-related features of bone tissue, therapy, and as well the presence of multi-morbidity.