RESEARCH - Heart attack risk and RA diagnosis linked

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Heart Attack Risk Increases Rapidly After Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Diagnosed

MedicalNewsToday.com

Also Included In: Arthritis / Rheumatology

Article Date: 07 Dec 2010 - 1:00 PST

The risk of having a heart attack is 60 per cent higher just a year

after a patient has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis,

according to research published in the December issue of the Journal

of Internal Medicine.

Swedish researchers followed 7,469 patients diagnosed with rheumatoid

arthritis (RA) between 1995 and 2006, together with 37,024 matched

controls without RA to determine the risk of ischaemic heart disease,

with particular reference to myocardial infarction (heart attack). The

maximum follow-up was 12 years and the median was just over four

years.

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> Heart Attack Risk Increases Rapidly After Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Diagnosed

crap. And I was actually thinking just a few days ago that autoimmune diseases

seem to run in my mom's side of the family, so hopefully since I have RA I have

mom's genes and will not end up having a heart attack at 50 like they do in my

dad's family.....

J

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Sorry, .

Unfortunately, there is much evidence which demonstrates that

cardiovascular disease and RA are intertwined.

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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, oogiejonz <bajones@...> wrote:

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> crap. And I was actually thinking just a few days ago that autoimmune diseases

seem to run in my mom's side of the family, so hopefully since I have RA I have

mom's genes and will not end up having a heart attack at 50 like they do in my

dad's family.....

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