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Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology (2008) 4, 114-115
doi:10.1038/ncprheum0724  
Received 7 August 2007 | Accepted 6 December 2007 | Published online: 29 January 2008

Identification of people with very early RA for optimal care: a public health challenge

Andrew Hwang, Samardeep Gupta and Matthew H Liang*

Correspondence *Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Email
 mliang@partners.org

Detecting and treating rheumatoid arthritis as early as possible in the disease stage can mean that long-term treatment might not be necessary. In this Viewpoint, Dr Liang and colleagues propose a novel method for the identification of persons with symptoms of early rheumatoid arthritis in the general population.

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