Arterial stiffness in Familial Mediterranean Fever: correlations with disease-related parameters and colchicine treatment.

Vasiliki SgouropoulouStella StabouliMaria Trachana

Published in: Clinical rheumatology (2019)

• FMF patients are prone to present increased cardiovascular risk possibly due to inflammation. • Colchicine treatment may have protective role against arterial stiffness in FMF. • The normal values of cf-PWV in FMF patients may reflect the compliance to colchicine.

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