Re: RESEARCH - RA patients and diabetics have similar cardiovascular risk

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Thank you for this information. I have diabetes & RA and this article was very

informative.

Mousie in Calif.

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> RA Patients and Diabetics Have Similar Cardiovascular Risk

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> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 27 - The risk of cardiovascular disease

> (CVD) is as high for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients as it is for

> patients with type 2 diabetes, Dutch researchers have discovered.

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> RA patients are known to have an increased cardiovascular risk

> compared to the general population, but the magnitude of this risk was

> not known, Dr. T. Nurmohamed, of VU University Medical Center,

> Amsterdam, and colleagues write in the September issue of the ls

> of the Rheumatic Diseases.

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> To learn more about the risk for CVD -- including coronary, cerebral,

> and peripheral arterial disease -- in RA patients and how it compares

> to CVD risk in diabetics, the investigators determined the prevalence

> of CVD in three groups of patients. The first consisted of 353

> randomly selected outpatients with RA in the Cardiovascular Research

> and Rheumatoid Arthritis study, ages 50 to 75. The second and third

> groups were drawn from the Hoorn study, a population-based study of

> glucose metabolism and other CVD risk factors: 194 patients with type

> 2 diabetes, and 258 nondiabetics to serve as controls.

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> Read the rest of the article here:

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> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/708070

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> Not an MD

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[Guest guest]

And some of us are " lucky " enough to have both.

Sue

On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:05 AM, wrote:

> RA Patients and Diabetics Have Similar Cardiovascular Risk

>

> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 27 - The risk of cardiovascular disease

> (CVD) is as high for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients as it is for

> patients with type 2 diabetes, Dutch researchers have discovered.

>