Professor Barton added: This is the first study of its kind in patients with high levels of active disease, and suggests that routinely assessing a patients moods and beliefs – separate to their physical state – would be useful in guiding patient management. As rheumatologists we need to be aware that depression may occur more commonly in patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis than we had realised.
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