Cardiovascular Event Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis is Higher than in Type 2 Diabetes: a 15 Year Longitudinal Study.

CONCLUSION: The incidence rate of CV events in established RA was more than double that of the general population. RA patients have an even higher risk of CV disease than patients with DM. This risk remained after adjustment for traditional CV risk factors suggesting that systemic inflammation is an independent contributor to CV risk. PMID: 31092721 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: J Rheumatol Source Type: research