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SUBMITTER: Jamthikar AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453675 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jamthikar Ankush D AD Gupta Deep D Puvvula Anudeep A Johri Amer M AM Khanna Narendra N NN Saba Luca L Mavrogeni Sophie S Laird John R JR Pareek Gyan G Miner Martin M Sfikakis Petros P PP Protogerou Athanasios A Kitas George D GD Kolluri Raghu R Sharma Aditya M AM Viswanathan Vijay V Rathore Vijay S VS Suri Jasjit S JS
Rheumatology international 20200828 12
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic chronic inflammatory disease that affects synovial joints and has various extra-articular manifestations, including atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Patients with RA experience a higher risk of CVD, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. Inflammation is a common phenomenon in RA and CVD. The pathophysiological association between these diseases is still not clear, and, thus, the risk assessment and detection of CVD in such patients is o ...[more]