Rheumatic Problem Factors

Rheumatic often attack to old people generally, but young people also can attack by rheumatic, see my blog rheumatic in children, diseases on certain condition. As medical statement that rheumatic factor is an immunoglobulin (antibody) which can bind to other antibodies, and antibodies itself are normal proteins found in the blood which function within the immune system. Rheumatic diseases can found in general population, but just about 1-2 % of healthy people can suffering of rheumatic disease. Rheumatic diseases found increase by the increasing of people age, about 20% of people over 65 years old suffered an elevated rheumatic factor.

People can detect of his health by blood test, a blood test can detect the presence of rheumatoid factor. By using blood test people is commonly ordered to diagnose rheumatic arthritis. Rheumatic factor is present in 80% of adults who have rheumatoid arthritis but there is a much lower prevalence in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The incidence of rheumatoid factor increases with duration of diseases in rheumatic arthritis, at 3 months the incidence is 33%, while at one year it is 75%, up to 20% of rheumatoid arthritis patients remain negative for rheumatoid factor (also known as “seronegative rheumatoid arthritis”) throughout the course of their disease.