Assertion: rheumatoid arthritis's system | /r/Causes | stiffness
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text: What it is: RA happens when the immune system attacks your own tissues and causes joint pain, swelling, and stiffness.
text: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a condition that happens when your immune system attacks your joint lining tissue, causing painful inflammation and stiffness.
text: Rheumatoid arthritis can affect people of any age including very young children and it is a condition where the immune system which usually protects us from infections, starts to attack the joints causing pain, stiffness and swelling.
text: Both are autoimmune conditions in which the immune system attacks the joints, causing pain, swelling, and stiffness.
text: RA occurs when your immune system, which normally defends the body from invading organisms, mistakenly attacks the lining of your joints, causing pain, swelling, warmth, redness, stiffness, and loss of function in the joints, all of which can eventually result in joint deformity (Online Table 2).Although
text: With RA, an overactive immune system attacks the joints and causes pain, swelling, and stiffness.