DESCRIPTION OF THE RESULT OF RHEUMATOID FACTOR IN MENOPAUSAL WOMEN IN SIDORAME BARAT II VILAGE ZONE VI MEDAN PERJUANGAN DISTRICT

Abstract

Menopause is a condition that occur in women with thedecreasing hormone who affect on menstruation
cycle to the lower level that make the menstruation can not happend again. Decreasing hormon can be one
of the triggers of Rheumatoid Arthritis that caused by decreasing the imunity who make an autoimune
reaction. One of the checks that can be a reference tho detect the Rheumatoid Arthritis is Rheumatoid
Factor. Rheumtaoid Factor using aglutination principle between sheep erythrochytes which been fixed
with human sera. The type of research that has been used is descriptive with 26 samples who get from
lemeshow formula. Sera used as the material and research held at imuno-serology’s Laboratorium
Polytechnic of Health, Health Analyst Major Department of Medicine Medan. The purpose of this study
is to determine the Rheumatoid Factor description result on menopausal women. The result who has been
held show there are 10 samples that obtained positive (39%) and 16 samples who obtained negative result
(61%)