Rheumatoid arthritis has be tied to heart disease, a new study indicates, RA-related inflammation can increase the risk of death from heart disease and additional cardiovascular events, though treating RA inflammation by means of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) reduced the risk.
The study looked at over 400 RA patients over the course of five years researchers monitor the patients' disease series treatment programs and traditional risk factors for heart disease, as well as weight, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, diabetes and smoking.
After five years, 97 percent of the patients have been treated with DMARDs, resulting in inflammation reduction many of the patients as well made lifestyle changes that reduced their cardiovascular disease risk the results showed to cardiovascular events like heart disease, stroke or deep vein thrombosis could be predicted by the force of arthritis and by diabetes, high blood pressure and triglyceride levels.
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