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Article: Women with RA have marked risk for heart attack.(rheumatoid arthritis)
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- March 13, 2003
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2003 MAR 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a higher risk of heart attack compared with those without arthritis, according to a new study.
The findings demonstrate that RA should be a recognized marker for increased risk of a heart attack, said Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of pharmacoepidemiology and rheumatology, immunology, and allergy at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"It would be prudent to consider aggressive cardiac preventive measures in patients with RA to address coronary heart disease risk factors," he said in the February 18, 2003, rapid-access ...