Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease for which there is no cure. In the lab where I work, we do “rheumatoid factor titers.” We goggled RA titers and found that the severity of the disease is tied to the titer (higher titer, greater severity). If you treat the symptoms, and the severity of the symptoms decreases, will there be a decrease in the RA titer, or will this remain the same, as you’re not curing the disease, but remedying the symptoms?