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Lisa Emrich

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posted 11/09/2009, comments (2)

Complications of Having Rheumatoid Arthritis and Diabetes

As I live with the comorbidity of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, I am very interested in learning more about comorbidities in general. The coupling of diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis is one for which there is not a large amount of literature. Normally I write at the MS and RA sites here at HealthCentral and when I was asked to... Read more Chevron

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Lisa Emrich

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posted 10/26/2009, comments (4)

Is there a link between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Diabetes?

When you were in high school what was your favorite subject? Besides music, it was anything math-related for me. I didn’t much care for words, which is ironic since now I spend time putting thoughts and information into understandable and relatable words. I preferred trigonometry, calculus, physics, even chemistry and... Read more Chevron

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Christine Miller

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posted 05/27/2008, comments (0)

Half of diabetics have some form of arthritis

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published a new study, based on telephone survey data, which shows that about one half of all adults with diabetes also have some form of arthritis. In other data, the CDC estimated that a little over 46 million people have arthritis and a little over 26 million people have either Type 1 or... Read more Chevron

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