Using good quality data from a large number of people, the experienced scientists conducting this research found that people who took certain
types of arthritis drugs had a lower risk of dementia than people not taking this treatment.
Not exact matches
Crohn's and rheumatoid
arthritis share the same genetic predispositions and both are often treated using the same
types of immunosuppressive
drugs.
Furthermore, many
of these
types of drugs require multiple treatments that can take hours to complete, as is the case with rheumatoid
arthritis.
The team from the
Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology looked at data from over 15,000 patients diagnosed with the disease who were being treated with certain
types of immunosuppressive
drugs, and found that one in five patients received no influenza vaccinations and one in two patients received no pneumonia vaccine over a five year follow - up period.
These
drugs have been approved for use in treating some or all
types of psoriasis or in some cases, just psoriatic
arthritis, a
type of arthritis that occurs in 6 % to 40 %
of people with psoriasis.
These
type of drugs are often given to dogs that suffer from
arthritis.