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Rheumatoid arthritis was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events compared with the general population, but did not reach the risk levels observed in patients with diabetes mellitus.
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This letter to the editor raises methodological points regarding a recent study that compared cardiovascular risk and mortality between patients with rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, and the general population.
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the work of Løgstrup et 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. First, the definition of RA patients in the study fulfilled two conditions: the use of DMARDs and registration in the Danish National Patient Register....
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Wang et al. (2021) conducted a letter in Rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis vs. Diabetes mellitus and the general population was evaluated on Cardiovascular risk and mortality (heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, and coronary revascularization). Rheumatoid arthritis was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events compared with the general population, but did not reach the risk levels observed in patients with diabetes mellitus.
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