As the disease often repeated acute, fever appeared in only at a certain stage of the disease, the view was expressed that the word for the entire course of Rheumatology, the expression of acute rheumatic fever stage activities more clearly.

• 由于本病常反复急性发作，发热仅出现于疾病的某个阶段，故有人认为，风湿病一词用于整个病程，以风湿热表达急性发作的活动阶段较为明确。