Pattern of Young and Old Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis (YORA and EORA) Among a Group of Egyptian Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Objective: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) differs depending on the age of disease onset. The differences between EORA and YORA are important because they have clinical and therapeutic implications.

Method: 1185 patients were ranked after classification according to age at onset of the disease into YORA I (16-40 years), YORA II (41-60 years) and EORA >60 years.

Loneliness among women with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-cultural study in the Netherlands and Egypt.

The objective of this study was to explain loneliness as experienced by women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a cross-cultural context. We studied 36 Egyptian female RA patients and 140 female Dutch RA patients..