BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease characterized by erosive synovitis that involves peripheral joints and implicates an important influence in the quality and the hope of life
On the last two decades several studies showed an increased prevalence of coronary and stroke disease and also the cardiovascular disease represents the principal mortality cause in RA patients; in both male and female subjects.
Abstract
disease characterized by erosive synovitis that involves peripheral joints and implicates an important influence in the quality and the hope of life. In addition, on the last two decades several studies showed an increased prevalence of coronary and stroke disease and also the cardiovascular (CV) disease represents the principal mortality cause in RA patients; in both male and female subjects. Also, CV mortality prevalence is higher in patients with a younger age than in the general population; so it ́s stablished an accelerated atherosclerosis in this disease.