Coronary artery disease is more severe in older persons with rheumatoid arthritis than in older persons without rheumatoid arthritis

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 55-56

  Yalamanchili, Kiran ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Kilaru, Ravi ^a   Sukhija, Rishi ^a   Babu, Sunil ^a   Peterson, Stephen J ^a   Frishman, William H ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary revascularization; Heart failure; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33744985591     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.crd.0000166172.07216.98     Document Type: Review

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