Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory condition. Chronic
inflammation is associated with atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, chronic obstructive …

Objective To compare the incidence of cardiovascular (CV) events in persons with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with that in people from the general population, adjusting for …

Objective It is hypothesized that the systemic inflammation associated with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) promotes an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. We …

Objective To investigate a) the cardiovascular (CV) mortality in a clinical cohort of patients
with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in comparison with the general population over 15 …

Publisher Summary Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the more common systemic
autoimmune disorders, affecting approximately 0.5–1% of the adult population, although its …

Objective: To compare the frequency of traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors in
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to non-RA subjects, and examine their impact on the risk …

In men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the confounding effect of adverse cardiovascular risk
profile on the independent association of RA disease activity score (DAS) and major …

Objective To determine whether systemic inflammation confers any additional risk for
cardiovascular death among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after adjusting for …

Background: There is increased cardiovascular disease mortality in rheumatoid arthritis.
This may reflect an increased prevalence of cardiovascular disease or an increased case …

Background: Cardiovascular mortality is increased in rheumatoid arthritis. Possible reasons
include an increased incidence of ischaemic heart disease or worse outcome after acute …