Higher Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Without Methotrexate Treatment

• Main Authors: Karel Hloch (Author), Martin Doseděl (Author), Jurjen Duintjer Tebbens (Author), Lenka Žaloudková (Author), Helena Medková (Author), Jiří Vlček (Author), Tomáš Soukup (Author), Petr Pávek (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) lead to higher morbidity and mortality in rheumatoid arthritis; thus, we aimed to determine whether patients who had discontinued methotrexate treatment before the study enrollment (group MTX 0) were at a higher risk of CVD than patients treated with methotrexate at th...