In Risk Of Severe Cardiovascular Events, Rheumatoid Arthritis Factors Equal To Cardiovascular Factors

Certain cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease factors have a similar effect on an RA patient’s risk of experiencing myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke, according to a new study presented at EULAR 2008, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Paris, France.The researchers studied 10,870 RA patients for a median of 24 months across two cohorts - patients with active RA and those with prior experience of CVD.

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Filed under: Arthritis on June 17th, 2008