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SUBMITTER: Bradham W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6072554 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bradham William W Ormseth Michelle J MJ Elumogo Comfort C Palanisamy Srikanth S Liu Chia-Ying CY Lawson Mark A MA Soslow Jonathan H JH Kawel-Boehm Nadine N Bluemke David A DA Stein C Michael CM
The Journal of rheumatology 20180415 8
<h4>Objective</h4>The prevalence of heart failure is increased 2-fold in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA); this is not explained by ischemic heart disease or other risk factors for heart failure. We hypothesized that in patients with RA without known heart disease, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) would detect altered cardiac structure, function, and fibrosis.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed 1.5-T cMRI in 59 patients with RA and 56 controls frequency-matched for age, race, and sex, a ...[more]