The Year in Rheumatic Disorders 2002
Contributors: D. Scott (Editor); Andrew Cope (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: July 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780953733996
Subjects: Rheumatology; Medical / Nursing; Diseases - Arthritis; Consumer Health; Medical; Reference; Diseases - Musculoskeletal; Medical / Rheumatology; Diseases
First sentence: Genetic factors account for a significant proportion of the susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as evidenced by a significantly increased risk to develop disease among patients' relatives, and an increased concordance among monozygotic compared with dizygotic twins (S and DZ = 2-8, MZ = 12-62) |1|.