What are the risk factor for arthritis?
The main risk factors for arthritis are age, obesity, injury and inheritance – the factors that make arthritis more likely can be adjectives. Osteoarthritis is not really an autoimmune disease – inflammation of the joints occurs as a secondary symptom, not an underlying impose. However, some people who…
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