Increased mortality rate in Takayasu arteritis is largely driven by cardiovascular disease-a cohort study.
Swapnil JagtapPrabhaker MishraUpendra RathoreDarpan R ThakareKritika SinghJuhi DixitTooba QamarManas Ranjan BeheraNeeraj JainManish OraDharmendra Singh BhadauriaSanjay GambhirSudeep KumarVikas AgarwalDurga Prasanna MisraPublished in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2023)
Patients with TAK had an elevated risk of mortality as compared with the general population. Cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death in TAK.