A novel ultrasound-based technique to establish a correlation between disease activity and local carotid stiffness parameters in rheumatoid arthritis.

CONCLUSION: A strong correlation was found between disease activity and local CS parameters in patients with RA. We also demonstrated that both active and inactive RA patients showed increased PWV values compared with the control subjects. This easily applicable and previously confirmed method can be used in future to assess cardiovascular risk in broad study populations from different risk groups. PMID: 28845495 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Medical Ultrasonography - Category: Radiology Tags: Med Ultrason Source Type: research