The nodules can also be caused by air pollution, fungal infections and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In fact, up to 32 percent of RA patients have lung nodules. Wellness ...

You'll have joint swelling and pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis before pulmonary nodules develop. Most SPNs show up when ...

I never had this before. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis can develop rheumatoid nodules, and it is a marker, for example, of more aggressive disease. Sometimes they're small, like the size of a ...

Bumps (nodules). Rheumatoid nodules ranging in size from a pea to a mothball form in nearly one-third of people who have RA. Nodules usually form over pressure points in the body such as the elbows, ...

Researchers in Sweden have confirmed that ever having smoked is a strong risk factor for the early development of rheumatoid nodules. Their nested, case–control study found that rheumatoid ...