Title |
Cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the QUEST-RA study
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Published in |
Arthritis Research & Therapy, March 2008
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DOI | 10.1186/ar2383 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Antonio Naranjo, Tuulikki Sokka, Miguel A Descalzo, Jaime Calvo-Alén, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, Reijo K Luukkainen, Bernard Combe, Gerd R Burmester, Joe Devlin, Gianfranco Ferraccioli, Alessia Morelli, Monique Hoekstra, Maria Majdan, Stefan Sadkiewicz, Miguel Belmonte, Ann-Carin Holmqvist, Ernest Choy, Recep Tunc, Aleksander Dimic, Martin Bergman, Sergio Toloza, Theodore Pincus, the QUEST-RA Group |
Abstract |
We analyzed the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its association with traditional CV risk factors, clinical features of RA, and the use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in a multinational cross-sectional cohort of nonselected consecutive outpatients with RA (The Questionnaires in Standard Monitoring of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Program, or QUEST-RA) who were receiving regular clinical care. |
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