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Article: Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have Double the Risk of Heart Failure.
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- February 2, 2005
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Byline: Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found that rheumatoid arthritis patients have twice the risk of heart failure, or a weakening of the heart's ability to pump blood, as those without rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study to be published in the February edition of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism, http://www.rheumatology.org. About one-third of the rheumatoid arthritis patients studied developed heart failure over 30 years of the disease.
"We decided to undertake this study because we knew that patients with rheumatoid arthritis die earlier than the general population, and mostly ...