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Rheumatoid arthritis mostly just damages your joints. RA can also damage the Brain lungs, eyes, skin veins and arteries and many other parts of the body. RA is an autoimmune disease, the cause is as jut not known. there is treatment available to slow the progress of the disease but in 2011 there is still no cure.

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