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Recent Examples of rheumatic
The goal of a strep vaccine would be to prevent some of the longer term consequences of strep infection, such as rheumatic heart disease, which are triggered by the immune system responding to the infection.
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Alice Park, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Ask whether your condition may be due to a rheumatic autoimmune disease — even in the absence of abnormal blood tests.
Bring an ally to your appointments.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s disease, linked to gland and organ dysfunction, are examples of prevalent rheumatic diseases.
—Johnson & Johnson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Another 300-400,000 people a year die from rheumatic heart disease, a chronic condition caused by damage from strep infection.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Alice Park, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Ask whether your condition may be due to a rheumatic autoimmune disease — even in the absence of abnormal blood tests.
Bring an ally to your appointments.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s disease, linked to gland and organ dysfunction, are examples of prevalent rheumatic diseases.
—Johnson & Johnson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Another 300-400,000 people a year die from rheumatic heart disease, a chronic condition caused by damage from strep infection.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rheumatic
arthritic
Adjective
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Those elders were old, arthritic, their quality had come down.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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His favorite dog, an arthritic 12-year-old black poodle named Jet, would hang by his side, while a menagerie of other dogs barked jealously from the kitchen.—
Jason Fine,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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“Rheumatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rheumatic. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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