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SUBMITTER: Hansildaar R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462628 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hansildaar Romy R Vedder Daisy D Baniaamam Milad M Tausche Anne-Kathrin AK Gerritsen Martijn M Nurmohamed Michael T MT
The Lancet. Rheumatology 20200901 1
The increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis and gout has been increasingly acknowledged in past decades, with accumulating evidence that gout, just as with rheumatoid arthritis, is an independent cardiovascular risk factor. Although both diseases have a completely different pathogenesis, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms in systemic inflammation overlap to some extent. Following the recognition that systemic inflammation has an important causat ...[more]