Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a term used to describe a chronic autoimmune disease (only going to get worse, no cure for) appearing in childhood resulting in joint pain and swelling. In this type of condition, the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue, causing pain and permanent damage. A flare-up may also be the result of "over-use" of a joint, result of an infection or follow a particularly stressful situation
Prognosis: Patients who have many joints involved, or who have a positive rheumatoid factor are more likely to have chronic pain and poor school/work attendance, and to be disabled...
-an altered medical excerpt
This is the second one I uploaded, this one is condensed or whatever computers need.
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