Autoimmune diseases (AD) represent a broad spectrum of chronic conditions that may afflict
specific target organs or multiple systems with a significant burden on quality of life. These …

… identifies preclinical cardiac involvement in systemic autoimmune diseases. Common …
useful for stratifying cardiovascular risk in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases. However, …

… the classic cardiac abnormalities and the more recent data about cardiovascular involvement
as … In addition to the classic cardiac abnormalities involving the heart structures, acute and …

… Autoimmune diseases are associated with a dramatically increased risk of atherosclerotic
cardiovascular disease and … and disease-promoting immune mechanisms. Notably, traditional …

… Cardiovascular system involvement is a frequent complication of autoimmune diseases (AD)
such as systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis, …

… Thus, intimal proliferation of a uniform and symmetrical nature can be seen in the large blood
vessels and is indistinguishable from that formed in other autoimmune diseases, in chronic …

… The mechanism and extent of cardiac involvement vary across autoimmune diseases, which
results in … and mechanism of cardiac damage in systemic autoimmune diseases (Table 1). …

… calculated the population attributable fraction of cardiovascular diseases attributable to
autoimmune disease (any of the diseases investigated in this study) using the Miettinen formula …

… Thus, people with autoimmune diseases have an increased cardiovascular risk and a …
between autoimmune diseases and various manifestations of cardiovascular disease. …

… The prevalence of autoimmune disease (AD) has increased significantly over the past 30 …
affecting different structures and organs, cardiac involvement is common among AD patients. …