A long-term nationwide study on mortality associated to rheumatoid arthritis in Italy.

CONCLUSIONS: RA was found to be increasingly reported in death certificates in the last two decades in Italy, although it is less frequently reported as the UCD. Due to the increased survival of patients, we observed a shift of RA-related mortality towards the elderly, making RA a comorbidity contributing to death in these patients. PMID: 32242815 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research