Increased cardiovascular risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: An overview

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-118

  Puttevils, Daisy ^a   De Vusser, Philip ^b   Geusens, Piet ^c   Dens, Jo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherogenesis; Cardiovascular risk; Heart failure; Rheumatoid arthritis; TNF antagonists

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANGIOTENSIN II; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; METHOTREXATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTACYCLIN; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RITUXIMAB; TOCILIZUMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LIVER TOXICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; VASODILATATION;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BELGIUM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84898492631     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: 03737934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/ac.69.2.3017291     Document Type: Review

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