Atherosclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: More Than a Simple Association

• Main Authors: Lorenzo Cavagna (Author), Nicola Boffini (Author), Giovanni Cagnotto (Author), Flora Inverardi (Author), Vittorio Grosso (Author), Roberto Caporali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In the last decades a large amount of evidence linked rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to atherosclerosis. In fact, RA patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular events that is not fully explained by other classic cardiovascular risk factors. RA and atherosclerosis may share several common pathomech...