Traditional and Disease Specific Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Events in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: A Multinational Retrospective Study.
Sergey MoiseevNikolay BulanovMatija CrnogoracHaner DireskeneliKresimir GalesicÜmmügülsüm GazelDuvuru GeethaLoic GuillevinZdenka HruškováMark A LittleLiam O'NeillEgor MakarovStephen P McAdooAladdin J MohammadSarah MoranPavel NovikovCharles D PuseyChinar RahmattullaVeronika SatrapováJoana SilvaAlexander SuvorovVladimír TesarBenjamin TerrierPeter WilleitMing-Hui ZhaoAndreas KronbichlerDavid R W JaynePublished in: The Journal of rheumatology (2023)
We showed that geographic region and both traditional and disease-specific (kidney involvement in particular) factors were independently associated with CVEs. Proper assessment and management of modifiable cardiovascular (CV) risk factors are essential for prevention of CV morbidity in patients with AAV.