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 …

… and activity of the autoimmune disease, and immunosuppressive therapy. The early phases
of cardiovascular involvement in patients with autoimmune diseases may be clinically silent, …

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

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

… 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 …

… of autoimmune disease (any of the 19 autoimmune diseases investigated in this study), and
the fraction of cardiovascular diseases … was attributable to autoimmune diseases was 6·3%. …

… autoimmune diseases and that, in addition to traditional risk factors, inflammation plays a
principal role. The increased risk of CVD among patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases …

… for coronary artery disease. We believe that because patients with autoimmune disease have
… the overall 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk is very reasonable. Patients …

… in utero acquired autoimmune disease, … involvement is the second most frequent cause of
death, pneumonia being the most common. Older studies report cardiovascular involvement in …

… factor for the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular (CV) events. We seek to
assess the risk of CV events in patients with Systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD), such as …