Abstract:Objectives: Patients with RA have a higher risk of ischemic cardiac events compared with the general population. This would be explained not only by the greater presence of traditional risk factors, but also by the systemic inflammatory nature of the disease. Compare self-reported prevalence of risk factors in rheumatoid patients with prevalence data from the brazilian general population. MethOds: Cross-sectional study between July and November 2014 including 183 patients with rheumatoid arthritis of both sexe… Show more
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