Cardiovascular and pupillary autonomic nervous dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis - A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 683-689

  Schwemmer, Stefanie ^a   Beer, Peter ^a   Schölmerich, Jürgen ^a   Fleck, Martin ^a   Straub, Rainer H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction; Mortality; Pupillary autonomic dysfunction; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOSPORIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC HYPERREFLEXIA; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SURVIVAL RATE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUPIL DISORDERS; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33846415448     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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