Psychiatric News (5/27) reported, “Rheumatoid arthritis [RA] and depression have a bidirectional association in which having one condition raises the risk of developing the other,” investigators concluded in a “meta-analysis of 11 studies that included a total of 39,130 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 550,782 patients with depression, and 7,802,230” controls. The findings were published online ahead of print in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders.
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— “Rheumatoid Arthritis, Depression Raise Risk of One Another, Meta-Analysis Finds, Psychiatric News, May 27, 2022