Carotid ultrasound is useful for the cardiovascular risk stratification of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Results of a population-based study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 722-727

  Corrales, Alfonso ^a   González Juanatey, Carlos ^b   Peiró, María E ^a   Blanco, Ricardo ^a   Llorca, Javier ^c,d   González Gay, Miguel A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b Hospital Lucus Augusti   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FELTY SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED EULAR SYSTEMATIC CORONARY RISK EVALUATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERICARDITIS; PLEURISY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID VASCULITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERITIS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SMOKING; SPAIN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84895459192     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-203101     Document Type: Article

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