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Accelerated atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review
2023-01-16
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<h4>Background: </h4> Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a highly prevalent, chronic inflammatory condition of the synovial joints that affects approximately 1% of the global population. The pathogenesis of RA is predominantly inflammatory in nature, thereby accelerating the co-occurrence of other immunoinflammatory conditions such as atherosclerosis. Apart from traditional cardiovascular risk factors, RA patients posse...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7b05bc72-3e0a-5493-9d91-78d30e4a7818
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.112921.2