Why the study?
Do patients with rheumatoid arthritis and continued low disease activity have worse cardiovascular parameters compared to healthy controls?
Population
103 participants, comprising 70 patients with rheumatoid arthritis without known cardiovascular disease who…
Design
Case-control
Authors
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RA patients with low disease activity may warrant closer CV monitoring; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before practice change.
Do patients with rheumatoid arthritis and continued low disease activity have worse cardiovascular parameters compared to healthy controls?
Even with continued low disease activity, rheumatoid arthritis patients exhibit significant subclinical atherosclerosis and cardiac dysfunction compared to healthy controls.
Biskup et al. (2018) studied this question.
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