Do cardiovascular risk factors confer the same risk for cardiovascular outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients as in non-rheumatoid arthritis patients?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-69

  Gonzalez, A ^a   Maradit Kremers, H ^a   Crowson, C S ^a   Ballman, K V ^a   Roger, V L ^a   Jacobsen, S J ^b   O'Fallon, W M ^a   Gabriel, Sherine E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEX; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 37749039808     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.059980     Document Type: Article

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