Hearing Loss in Rheumatoid Arthritis

March 9, 2018

Which patients with RA are at greatest risk?

Reference1. Huang CM, Chen HJ, Huang PH, et al. Retrospective cohort study on risk of hearing loss in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using claims data. BMJ Open. 2018;8:e018134. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018134.

Few population-wide studies have looked at the risk of hearing loss in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Recently, a nationwide study in Taiwan investigated the risk in patients with newly diagnosed RA.¹ Scroll through the slides for the findings and take-home points.

DMARD, disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; TNF, tumor necrosis factor.

Hearing Loss in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Veronica Hackethal, MD