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Panamerican Association of Rheumatology Associations (PANLAR) and Latin American Rheumatoid Arthritis Study Group (GLADAR)

 

Rheumatology 2006; 45: 11-5-116

 

Paper prepared by representatives of 16 countries members of PANLAR and GLADAR. Its discussion and writing took place in Quito, Ecuador, in 2006. It reports on the analysis of its own indicators in Latin

 

America and the Caribbean on the frequency of this disease in the population, and provides insights on the diagnosis and treatment of it, with Emphasis on the education of professionals and health authorities, as well as the patients themselves, around the symptomatology to obtain a consultation, diagnosis and early treatment of the disease.

 

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