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DMARDs

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Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs)
A class of antirheumatic drugs, including chloroquine, methotrexate, cyclosporine, and gold compounds, that influence the disease process itself and do not only treat its symptoms.
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There are the anti-rheumatic drugs that modify the disease, commonly known as DMARDs, and there''s also the biologics made from animal or human proteins.
Corticosteroids are useful in early disease as temporary adjunctive therapy while waiting for DMARDs to exert their antiinflammatory effects.
In addition to pain and anti-inflammatory medicines, your doctor might suggest antirheumatic drugs, called DMARDs (disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs).
 
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