Article
Largely accelerated arterial aging in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with inflammatory activity and smoking in the early stage of the disease
2020-08-31
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have a shorter life expectancy than the general population primarily due to cardiovascular comorbidities.<bold>Objectives:</bold> To characterize arterial aging in RA.<bold>Patients and methods:</bold> Coronary calcium scores (CCS) were available from 112 RA patients; out of these patients, follow-up CCS were measured of 54 ran...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 397fb46b-13d1-5e16-b530-0ff0cc136c25
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-61732/v1
