It’s well established now, but still not widely known, that the cardiovascular risks for patients with RA are similar to that in diabetes mellitus.
Atherosclerosis, stroke and heart attack account for a 1.5 to 2.0 fold increased risk of death in these people.
Those with RA are likely to die ten years earlier than the rest of the population when all other factors are taken into account …. !
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
I for one will be checking BP and lipid profiles in all my RA patients from now on. Rheumatologists suggest that many should be on statin therapy and that the threshold for starting treatment (and end point targets) should be the same as for patients with diabetes
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