Tonnies Abeku Buckman, Samuel Asamoah Sakyi, Kwame Yeboah-Mensah, Maxwell Hubert Antwi, Isaac Darban, Lawrence Owusu-Brenya, Joseph Yorke, Andy Opoku Boateng, Ebenezer Senu, Albert Dompreh, Akwasi Minnah Addei, Richard Boateng, Ortis Yankey, Samuel Tandoh
BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the frequent chronic, systemic, inflammatory autoimmune disorders with an estimated global prevalence of 1%. RA leads to joint destruction and disability if left untreated. Ghana has seen very few studies on RA, and little is known about the disease's severity and related variables. This study sought to characterize the clinical presentation and determine disease severity and associated risk factors with disease severity among RA patients in a tertiary hospital in Ghana...
2024: International Journal of Rheumatology