… the cardiovascular burden, and medications to treat … rheumatic disease can influence
cardiovascular risk positively or negatively. Some cardiac manifestations show a degree of disease …

… of cardiovascular disease (CVD) serves as a key element in preventive cardiology. The
risk of developing CVD in patients with rheumatic disease … and describe updated risk-prediction …

… , therapy and disease-related factors. … risk factors in patients with inflammatory rheumatic
diseases. Better understanding of the association between these conditions and cardiovascular …

… risk factors [14, 15]. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of traditional
cardiovascular risk factors in different rheumatic diseases with that in the general population. …

… for the management of cardiovascular risk in inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Footnotes: …
; CVRFs: cardiovascular risk factors; CV: cardiovascular: SCORE: Systematic COronary …

… and related risk factors. Future studies of CVD risk in patients with rheumatic diseases should
include … This suggests an unfavorable cardiovascular risk profile in AS, including systemic …

… The available data support these theories: anti-rheumatic drugs appear to reduce cardiovascular
risk, whereas statins seem to reduce disease activity in RA [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36]. …

… of immunoinflammatory diseases are rheumatic ones, such as … diseases, which are
characterized by a high risk for untimely death. The high risk of untimely death in these diseases has …

… Management includes lifestyle modifications and pharmacological treatment of traditional
cardiovascular risk factors, as well as tight control of disease activity with disease-modifying-…

… , which is specific to all chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (CIRD), accelerates
atherogenesis; this hypothesis is supported by the high cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality …