Updated April 27, 2016. Although urinary tract infections (UTIs) are more common in women than in men, millions of urinary tract infections develop in men each year. Infections of the urinary system, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra, can be very serious, and in some cases even life threatening.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease where the immune system attacks the lining of some joints. This cause pain and swelling in those joints.The cause of rheumatoid arthritis is not completely understood. We know that it effects women more than men and that it is more common in people that smoke.his cause pain and swelling in those joints. The cause of rheumatoid arthritis is not completely understood. We know that it effects women more than men and that it is more common in people that smoke.
Rheumatoid arthritis plays a significant role in the history of Lyme disease as it was a cluster of cases in children of juvenile arthritis that prompted investigation into the condition in Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.he paediatric cases were initially diagnosed as being juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis, before re-assessment following similar symptoms in soldiers at a nearby military base. The term Lyme arthritis was then coined to describe the symptoms resulting from infection with Borrelia burgdorferi.