Is subclinical atherosclerosis more frequent in systemic sclerosis patients compared to healthy subjects and rheumatoid arthritis patients, and can it be detected by standard cardiovascular risk indices?
Patients with Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Healthy Subjects (HS)
Evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk indices
Healthy Subjects (HS) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients
Frequency of subclinical atherosclerosis and detection by cardiovascular risk indicessurrogate
Standard cardiovascular risk indices are insufficient to detect subclinical atherosclerosis in systemic sclerosis patients, despite it being as frequent as in rheumatoid arthritis.
Subclinical atherosclerosis in SSc patients is more frequent than in HS, but is as frequent as in RA patients in which accelerated atherosclerosis is clearly defined. CV risk indices for the general population are considerably insufficient to detect SSc patients with atherosclerosis.
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Gülşen Özen
University of Iowa Health Care
Nevsun İnanç
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Ali Ünal
Dokuz Eylül University
Arthritis Care & Research
Marmara University
Trakya University
Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University
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Özen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
synapsesocial.com/papers/69db2306387cf7069868835f — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.22852
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