Comorbidity in Rheumatic Diseases
This book explores comorbidity in patients with rheumatic diseases and details both care and treatment options in standard clinical practice.Patients with rheumatic diseases are clinically complex, and the interplay of their disease activity with associat
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Comorbidity in Rheumatic Diseases
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Comorbidity in Rheumatic Diseases
Yasser El Miedany Editor
Comorbidity in Rheumatic Diseases
Editor Yasser El Miedany, MD, FRCP Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer King’s College London London, UK Professor of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt Consultant Rheumatologist Department of Rheumatology Darent Valley Hospital Dartford, Kent, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-59962-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-59963-2
ISBN 978-3-319-59963-2 (eBook)
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“A true friend is a gift from God” This book is dedicated to my dear friends whom I have been fortunate enough to meet. To my dear friends in Egypt, England, the United States, and the Arabian Gulf, many thanks for your support.
Foreword
The practice of rheumatology has been tremendously modified over the past 10–15 years. Fifteen years ago, the relative lack of effective treatments and treatment strategies meant that the rheumatologist was mainly managing the disease and its consequences on the patient’s life, sometimes even “running after” the inflammatory process rather than controlling it. Today, thanks to new management strategies, more tight control, and more effective treatments, the prognosis of rheumatic disorders and in particular inflammatory rheumatic disorders has been profoundly improved. It is in this context of an overall lower disease burden that comorbidities have taken on an increasing importance. Comorbidities are both more frequent and less well screened for in inflammatory rheumatic disor
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