Cardiovascular risk and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis compared with diabetes mellitus and the general population

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the work of L øgstrupet al. [1] studying cardiovascular risk and mortality in RA compared with diabetes mellitus (DM) and the general population. In their work, the authors longitudinally followed patients with RA and DM. They highlighted that RA is associated with an increased risk of heart failure, myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and coronary revascularization than is found in the general population, but without reaching the risk levels observed in DM patients. They pointed out that patients with incident RA have the same 10  year risk of MI compared with DM patients. However, we believe that at least three points should be discussed to integrate these new results and help guiding further development of this study.
Source: Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research