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A member asked:
Can an ra test (rhematoid factor) come up negative when a person is not experiencing a flare up at the time?
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Very rarely: Complete remission may rarely cause a positive rheumatoid factor to revert to negative. However, the titer of rheumatoid factor does not really correlate with disease activity in any one person.
Answered 6/10/2017
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