The place of epidemiology in the study of rheumatoid disease

The past and the future ofArthritis & Rheumatism: A view from the american college of rheumatology

“…Often the emphasis was on what was as yet unknown, rather than on what had just been discovered. For example, Sidney Cobb wrote, concerning “rheumatoid disease,” “In terms of estimates of incidence and prevalence, we can only say that to date we have no adequate estimates … The field is wide open, for there are very few physicians interested in this approach” (3).…”