INFO - HSS: Lower the thermostat - the heat is too high: winning the battle and the war

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August 11, 2003

Lower the Thermostat - the Heat is Too High: Winning the Battle and the War

Musings

A. Paget, MD, FACP, FACR

Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Division of Rheumatology

Hospital for Special Surgery

The ph P. Routh Professor of Medicine

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Excerpt:

Unless we as rheumatologists learn to

and how to " turn and keep down the heat " related to the inflammatory

processes that burden our patients, we relegate them to the cumulative,

attendant types of collateral damage to which they are subject. Years of

unopposed, uncontrolled active inflammation, at any level, is detrimental

and begets many life-shortening and life-altering effects. The point of

therapeutic opportunity is at the beginning of the disease process.

Read the entire article here:

http://www.hss.edu/Professionals/Conditions/Rheumatoid-Arthritis/Winning-The-Bat\

tle-And-The-War

Not an MD

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org