Arthritis: SED Rate

" Welcome to our webcast I'm doctor David Marks thank you all for sending in your questions about arthritis we're gonna try to answer them on this webcast. Joining me to do that is doctor Allen about ski professor of medicine and public health at Cornell and a rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery thanks for helping us out. Thank you get it. I don't know why they took a separate. With arthritis and doesn't always prove or -- you have arthritis. And excellent question. The -- great the risk beside it Riverside seven inflation rate -- are using nonspecific in exit inflammation. Remedies that day when was abnormal we know the truth inflammation in the body. When you lose not elevated. Assuming that there are no things to firstly Larry it's value. We know that there is no inflammation in the body now. Merely because that said greatest ever made it that does not mean the patient has upright so it is not but diagnostic tool. The Senate -- can be elevated in anything from athlete's foot the terminal cancer. Indeed there are studies that show that women at certain times in the normal menstrual cycle may have an elevated Cedric. So we used to said great as a gauge as a guide to how much inflammation areas. And whether the therapy will prescribing is reducing that information. We do not use it diagnostic clinic because it cannot make the diagnosis sports such used that to guide the position. That's correct it's an index of whether what we giving is working. And it's also an index as to how much information is going on in that patient. A patient who comes in with multiple complaints and they very high said grade. It's a patient with something that we need to look to find out further. Patient with multiple complaints and -- so great kind of sets the stage that we may have more time to watch something evolve. If anything will probable that well thank you very much you very well thank you for your questions and thank you for joining a webcast and doctor David Marks about."