this study aims to determine if nociplastic pain mediates the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) severity and cognitive impairment in geriatric patients 100 patients aged 65-90 years with long-standing RA and assess their disease severity, cognition, and pain sensitization will be recruited. Expectations that patients with more severe RA will have worse cognitive function, and that this relationship will be mediated by higher levels of nociplastic pain.
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Cognitive function as measured by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
Timeframe: Baseline
Centralized pain as measured by the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI)
Timeframe: Baseline
RA disease severity as measured by the Physician Global Assessment (0-10 VAS)
Timeframe: Baseline