A Narrowing Mortality Gap: Temporal Trends of Cause-Specific Mortality in a National, Matched Cohort Study in U.S. Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Excess RA-related mortality was driven by cardiovascular, cancer, respiratory, and infectious causes, particularly cardiopulmonary diseases. Though our findings support that RA-related mortality risk is decreasing over time, a mortality gap remains for all-cause and cause-specific mortality in RA. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.