Is atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis related to disease severity and extraarticular manifestations? Comment on the article by Chung et al [1]

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1353-

  Turesson, Carl ^a   Matteson, Eric L ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTRAARTICULAR MANIFESTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MODIFIED HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SMOKING;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646362750     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21777     Document Type: Letter

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